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fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is ''flora''. Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use ''fauna'' to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess Shale fauna". Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which is a series of rocks all containing similar fossils.
== Etymology ==
''Fauna'' comes from the Latin names Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns. All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and ''panis'' is the Greek equivalent of fauna. ''Fauna'' is also the word for a book that catalogues the animals in such a manner. The term was first used by Linnaeus in the title of his 1745〔Wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Linnaeus〕 work ''Fauna Suecica''.
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