Fauna
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Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota.
Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess Shale fauna".
Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which is a series of rocks all containing similar fossils.
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See also
- Biodiversity
- Biome
- Ecology
- Ecosystem
- Environmental movement
- Fauna and Flora Preservation Society
- Gene pool
- Genetic erosion
- Genetic pollution
- Natural environment
- Soil zoology
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