Editing Palearctic realm (section)

==History==
In an 1858 paper for the ''Proceedings of the [[Linnean Society]]'', British zoologist [[Philip Sclater]] first identified six terrestrial zoogeographic realms of the world: Palaearctic, Aethiopian/[[Afrotropic]], [[Indian subcontinent|Indian]]/[[Indomalaya]]n, [[Australasian realm|Australasian]], [[Nearctic]], and [[Neotropical]]. The six indicated general groupings of fauna, based on shared biogeography and large-scale geographic barriers to migration.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Sclater | first=Philip Lutley | author-link=Philip Sclater | date=1858 | title=On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves | journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=2 | issue=7 | pages=130–145 | doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1858.tb02549.x | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2240015 }}</ref>

[[File:Wallace03.jpg|thumb|500px|Frontispiece to [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]'s book ''The Geographical Distribution of Animals'']]

[[Alfred Wallace]] adopted Sclater's scheme for his book ''The Geographical Distribution of Animals'', published in 1876. This is the same scheme that persists today, with relatively minor revisions, and the addition of two more realms: [[Oceanian realm|Oceania]] and the [[Antarctic realm|Antarctic]].