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In virology, realm is the highest taxonomic rank established for viruses by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which oversees virus taxonomy. Six virus realms are recognized and united by specific highly conserved traits:
Each realm may include a number of different biomes. A tropical moist broadleaf forest in Central America, for example, may be similar to one in New Guinea in its vegetation type and structure, climate, soils, etc., but these forests are inhabited by animals, fungi, micro-organisms and plants with very different evolutionary histories.
A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign ... to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The King's realm, the United ...
The Neotropical realm has 31 endemic bird families, which is over twice the number of any other realm. They include tanagers, rheas, tinamous, curassows, antbirds, ovenbirds, toucans, and seriemas. Bird families originally unique to the Neotropics include hummingbirds (family Trochilidae) and wrens (family Troglodytidae).
The Oceanian realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms and is unique in not including any continental land mass. It has the smallest land area of any of the WWF realms . This realm includes the islands of the Pacific Ocean in Micronesia , the Fijian Islands , the Hawaiian Islands , and Polynesia (with the exception of New Zealand). [ 1 ]
A realm that serves as the setting for the Encantadia Filipino franchise. Encantadia: 2005: T F V Equestria: Lauren Faust: The setting of the fourth and fifth generations of the My Little Pony franchise. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: 2010: T C V Eternia: Roger Sweet: The home world of the Masters of the Universe animated series. 1981: O ...
Realm Biome Ecoregion Country/Territory; Afrotropical: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: Albertine Rift montane forests: Burundi: Afrotropical:
A fantasy realm in which the Shannara series is set. Possibly a future post-apocalyptic Earth. Future History: Life-Line: 1939 Robert Heinlein: Future history of humanity from the mid 20th century to the 23rd, seen largely through the eyes of the immortal Howard families, in particular Lazarus Long. Gaea universe Titan: 1979 John Varley