Abstract: A landscape regionalization System of China (Table 1) has been proposed in thais paper by the authors who attempt to suggest using it for a purpose of description on animal species distribution instead of the rrevailingly traditional using of administrative divisions. The latter is known based on political reason and not suitable for the object studying of natural phenomena.Obviously, using political province names defines species area, if without distribution map, often giving inaccurate conception which could not reflect the natural characteristic of the distribution. The system suggested is derived from the author's experience of zoogeographical study. The name and the area of each unit in the system coincide with that of the common geographical units which are being familiar to scholar as well as layman.Furthermore, the physiographical units of the systems have been arranged orderly corresponding generally to natural division of China and reflect the gradient of temperature in the eastern part predominated by monsoon climate, of moisture in the northwestern part of dry area and the Tibet plateau and its adjacent mountains characterized by distinct vertical variation associated with two dimensions (latitudinal and longitudinal)of geographical changing (Fig.1).It is suggested that the system with definite framework can be generalized as a hypothetic model of geographical correlation between faunal characteristics and natural conditions for comparative geographical study of zoogeographic phenomena as well as of geographical variation of animal ecology(Fig.2)

摘要： 叙述动物地理分布(geographic distribution)时,对地名的应用颇不一致,通常有三种方式:(1)应用行政省、区、县的名称;(2)应用通称的地理名称,如华北平原、天山山地;(3)较详细地叙述,如四川贡嘎山海拔3,500—4,000米的云杉、冷杉林。在多数的著作和文章中最常见的是第一类,而且由于受出版篇幅所限,总是简单扼要地叙述到省名,或只作稍多的补充加上“北部”、“南部”之类的用词。许多以表格形式出现的分布资料都是以省或低一级行政区划分,即地区或州(如四川阿坝)为单位,这种用法已成为最习惯的用法。这样在不附分布图的情况下,只用行政区的名称,其结果使读者对了解动物分布可能产生模糊与不确切的概念,因为除了自然条件(从大尺度来看)比较一致的极少数省份,如浙江、山东。似乎每个省份内都还可以出现几个很不相同的自然带(区)或动物地理区(甚至界),即使浙江、山东这类地区单用省名或地区名等亦属过于粗略,举数例如下:甘肃省:包括几个大的自然条件明显不同的地区,西北部为荒漠一半荒漠,东部为黄土高原,南部则是北亚热带,在动物区系一区划上差别很大。