Fauna

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  • Fauna
definition
  • animal life; especially : the animals characteristic of a region, period, or special environment—compare flora 1
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Abstract from DBPedia
    Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora, and for fungi, it is funga. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life 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. The study of animals of a particular region is called faunistics.

    動物相（どうぶつそう、英: Fauna）とは、ある特定の地域と時間における動物を表す集合的な用語である。これに対応する植物の集合の概念は植物相である。さらに全生物を対象とする言葉に生物相がある。ラテン語の仮名書きであるファウナの形でもよく使われる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fauna)