| Alfred Russel Wallace - 1876 - 704 lehte
...transition to the Nearctic region. General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region. — Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...elsewhere. These consist of two families of monkeys, Cebidse and Hapalidse, both abounding in genera and species ; the Phyllostomidse, or blood-sucking... | |
| United States National Museum - 1892 - 846 lehte
...combined with isolation is the predominant feature of Neotropical /oology, and no other region c;in approach it in the number of its peculiar family and generic types." The families peculiar to South America are: (1) Diplomystidce, (2) Axpredinidœ, (3) Hypophthalmiihv,... | |
| William Berryman Scott - 1913 - 732 lehte
...Fio. 89. — Fox-like Wolf (Cerdocyon yracitis). — By permission of WS Berridge, London. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types " (Wallace), Just as North America has received many immigrants from the Old World, so it has sent... | |
| William Berryman Scott - 1937 - 926 lehte
...of Mexico, extending into southeastern Texas, and the coastal strip of southern Florida. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types" (Wallace). Most of the Neotropical fauna is of indigenous origin and derived from a long series of... | |
| United States National Museum - 1892 - 844 lehte
...of South American tishe-s belong to the Physostomous Téleoste. In the words of Wallace: "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...number of its peculiar family and generic types." The families peculiar to South America are: (l) Diplomystidœ, (2) Aspredinidœ, (3) Hypophthalmidœ,... | |
| Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, Anthony G. Coates - 1996 - 448 lehte
...appreciated the importance of the previous isolation of the South American mammal and bird faunas. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types" (Wallace 1876, 2:5). Tertiary records of American mammals, as one can see from Wallace's remarks, still... | |
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