Re: geography of various species?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ted
Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>My daughter asked me "How many species of insects live in different
>places, like Antarctica or Alaska?"  That seems like a science that
>would have its own name, such as "entomologeography" or something. 
>Anyway, where do I look for answers to questions like this?

The word would be entomogeography, but it doesn't appear to be used (at
least on the WWW). Entomography appears to be a journal on insect
anatomy (no doubt full of drawings of insects :-) ).

Googling for insect biogeography gives thousands of hits; googling for
the phrase "insect biogeography" gives 66 hits. You might find something
of interest amongst all this.

[Biogeography, zoogeography and phytogeography are all commonly used,
the first to a much greater degree. Also, rarely the combined forms with
pal(a)eo-, and neobiogeography, mycogeography, herpetogeography and
ichthyogeography, and with a related meaning anthropogeography. But is
there a word for the (study of the) distribution of marine/aquatic
animals?]
-- 
Stewart Robert Hinsley