The wonderful nature of Indonesia
Indonesia is home to a wide variety of different beautiful animals, among them you’ll find the in aquariums popular clown loach? The origin of the clown loach, Chromobotia macracanthus, is the inland waters of Sumatra and Borneo two of the largest islands in Indonesia. They are found in fast moving waters and clown loaches appricate fast moving water in aquariums as well.
Indonesia is located on both sides of the equator in South Eastern Asia and Oceania. Indonesia consist of about 6000 inhabited island and about 11 500 more uninhabited islands. The most well known of all 17500 islands are Borneo, Java, New Guinea, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Only a part of Borneo is Indonesian, the other parts belong to Malaysia and Brunei. New Guinea is shared with Papua New Guinea.
Indonesia has two distinct monsoonal wet and dry seasons, with the mountains receiving the largest amounts of rainfall. The average temperature varies little throughout the year and you can expect it to stay around 26-30°C (79-86°F) during the day.
Indonesia has the worlds second highest biodiversity after Brazil. The flora and fauna is a combination of Asian and Oceanic species and just like Australia, India boosts an astonishingly high degree of endemism. Of its 515 scientifically described mammal species, almost 40% can be found nowhere else in the world.
Indonesia is located where the tectonic plates of Australia, Euroasia and the Pacific meets, which make it prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Indonesia is home to 150 active vulcano among which the most famous are Krakatoa and Tambora who both have had devestating eruptions during the 19th century. There is a positive side the the vulcanos however and that is that it is nutrient rich vulcanic ash from the vulcanos that allow the rich plant life in the region.
A part of Indonesia is called Sundaland by zoologists and this area is similar to the naearby Asian mainland. The lakes, rivers and swamps of this region are home to roughly 1,000 scientifically described species of fish of which nearly 200 were discovered during the last decade.
The island Sulawesi and the Maluku archipelago in known as Wallacea and is located between Sundaland and the Australian zone to the east. Parts of the Nusa Tenggara islands are also considered Wallacea territory by zoologists. Over 300 species of fish has been described from the Wallacean waters out of which nearly 25% are endemic. There are for instance seven endemic goby species and two endemic species of halfbeak living in South Sulawesi. The Maluku archipelago and Nusa Tenggara is still far from thoroughly explored by science so you can expect to add many new endemic species to the list during coming years.
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