Figure 1 in Removal of historical taxonomic bias and its impact on biogeographic analyses: a case study of Neotropical tardigrade fauna

Figure 1. Biogeographic compartmentalisation of provinces from the Andean and Neotropical regions proposed by Morrone (2015) and Morrone et al. (2022), respectively. The hierarchy of compartmentalisation is from highest to lowest level: region, transition zone, subregion, dominion, and province. Each level can be subdivided into multiple lower levels under their name (e.g., a region consisting of several subregions). Each biogeographic province is coloured according to its transition zone, subregion or dominion. The Neotropical region (NR), in this study, is composed of the Antillean subregion (ASR), Brazilian subregion (BSR) and Chacoan subregion (CSR). The BSR is composed of the Mesoamerican dominion (MD), Pacific dominion (PD), Boreal Brazilian dominion (BBD) and South Brazilian dominion (BBD). The CSR is composed of the Southeastern Amazonian dominion (SAD), Chacoan dominion (CD) and Paraná dominion (PD). The Andean region (AR), in this study, is composed of the Central Chilean subregion (CCSR), Subantarctic subregion (SSR) and Patagonian subregion (PSR). The acronym for each region, transition zone, subregion or dominion is presented next to its name. Under each subregion or dominion, the names of the comprising provinces are listed. The nature of the records present in each province is indicated by an icon of a coloured tardigrade next to its name: provinces without records of tardigrade species (red tardigrade), provinces with only records of 'false cosmopolitan species' (blue tardigrade), provinces with records of 'false cosmopolitan' and 'indigenous species' (orange tardigrade), and provinces with only records of 'indigenous species' (violet tardigrade). The tardigrade icon is in the public domain and was obtained from Phylopic (https://www.phylopic.org).