The identification of areas of endemism is essential in building an area classification, but plays little role in how natural areas are discovered. Rather area monophyly, derived from cladistics, is essential in the discovery of natural area classifications or area taxonomy. We propose Area Taxonomy to be a new sub-discipline of historical biogeography, one that can be revised and debated, and which has its own area nomenclature. Separately to area taxonomy, we outline how natural areas may be discovered by transcribing the concepts of homology and monophyly from biological systematics to historical biogeography, in the form of area homologues, area homologies and area monophyly.

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建立自然区域分类框架

确定特有区域对于建立区域分类至关重要，但在如何发现自然区域方面几乎没有作用。相反，源自分支学的区域单一性对于发现自然区域分类或区域分类至关重要。我们建议区域分类学是历史生物地理学的一门新分支学科，可以修改和辩论，并且有自己的区域命名法。与区域分类学分开，我们概述了如何通过以区域同源、区域同源和区域单系的形式将同源和单系的概念从生物系统学转录到历史生物地理学来发现自然区域。