The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2. köide |
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It possesses hardly any positive distinctions ; but there are several of a negative
character , many important groups being wholly confined to South America . On
the other hand many genera range into Mexico and Guatemala from the north ...
It possesses hardly any positive distinctions ; but there are several of a negative
character , many important groups being wholly confined to South America . On
the other hand many genera range into Mexico and Guatemala from the north ...
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birds , which , though comprising nearly three - fourths of the entire class , yet
presents hardly any well - marked differences of structure by which it can be
subdivided — the families confined to America are , for the most part , more
closely ...
birds , which , though comprising nearly three - fourths of the entire class , yet
presents hardly any well - marked differences of structure by which it can be
subdivided — the families confined to America are , for the most part , more
closely ...
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Of the extensive family Silurid¿ , three sub - families Silurid¿ anomalopter¿ , S .
olisthopter¿ , and S . branchiol¿ , are confined to this region . The larger and
more important of the peculiar genera are the following : Percilia , inhabiting ...
Of the extensive family Silurid¿ , three sub - families Silurid¿ anomalopter¿ , S .
olisthopter¿ , and S . branchiol¿ , are confined to this region . The larger and
more important of the peculiar genera are the following : Percilia , inhabiting ...
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One genus , Agrius , is confined to the southern extremity of the continent .
Carabid¿ . - Besides a considerable number of cosmopolitan or wide - spread
genera , this family is represented by more than 100 genera which are peculiar to
the ...
One genus , Agrius , is confined to the southern extremity of the continent .
Carabid¿ . - Besides a considerable number of cosmopolitan or wide - spread
genera , this family is represented by more than 100 genera which are peculiar to
the ...
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all except two or three confined to South Temperate America ; Scelodontis ( 10 sp
. ) , mostly Chilian ; Feronomorpha ( 6 sp . ) all Chilian ; and Tropidopterus ( 4 sp .
) , all Chilian . Helluomorpha ( 18 sp . ) , is confined to North and South ...
all except two or three confined to South Temperate America ; Scelodontis ( 10 sp
. ) , mostly Chilian ; Feronomorpha ( 6 sp . ) all Chilian ; and Tropidopterus ( 4 sp .
) , all Chilian . Helluomorpha ( 18 sp . ) , is confined to North and South ...
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Page 348 - ... so completely intermediate between the anserine birds on the one side, and the storks and herons on the other, that it can be ranged with neither of these groups, but must stand as the type of a division by itself.
Page 145 - ... are the seat and birthplace of all the higher forms of life, while the southern continents have derived the greater part, if not the whole of their vertebrate fauna from the north ; but it implies the erroneous conclusion that the chief southern lands, Australia and South America, are more closely related to each other than to the northern continent. The fact, however, is that the fauna of each has been derived, independently, and perhaps at very different times, from the north, with which they...
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Page 538 - Till every wellmarked district,—every archipelago, and every important island, has all its known species of the more important groups of animals catalogued on a uniform plan, and with a uniform nomenclature, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution of Animals will not be possible.
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| Title | The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 2. köide The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Harper and brothers, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 jaan. 2007 |
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