A phylogeographical analysis across three
biogeographical provinces of the south-eastern Pacific: the case of the marine gastropod Concholepas concholepas.
As implied in the title of the volume, most of the papers focus on the establishment and significance of biogeographical provinces and their application to paleogeography.
Their analysis, underpinned by faunal and paleomagnetic evidence, indicates that i) only Avalonia should be considered a separate microcontinent on a separate plate; ii) Armorica is composed of several terranes, and iii) Perunica should be considered only as a separate biogeographical province.
This comprises the Amazon basin from Colombia and French Guiana as far south as Bolivia and northern Argentina (biogeographical provinces Chaco and Pampa).
According to Morrone (2006) all known records pertain to the biogeographical Provinces Napo, Imeri, Cauca and western portions of the Varzea Province, which predominantly comprise tropical lowland rainforest.
Argentinean Chaco Serrano (SERR ARG) (one of Cabrera's (1976)
biogeographical provinces): Cabrera (1976), Novara (1985); 350 genera.
For example, a widely quoted book that tracks diversity around the world, the World Resource Institute's Realms, Biomes and
Biogeographical Provinces of the World (1986) doesn't even discuss the ocean!
in the Peruvian Andes, in Puna
biogeographical province (Figures 2, 22, 37).