All the animal life of a particular region, time period, or environment.
From New Latin “Fauna,” the name of a Roman goddess of the earth and animals, feminine form of “Faunus.” It became a scientific term to match “flora” for plants.
“Fauna” is basically the animal twin of “flora”—if flora is the plant world, fauna is the animal world. Scientists turned a mythological earth goddess into a tidy label for everything that crawls, swims, or flies in an ecosystem.
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