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, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 54
... absence of certain families or genera is of equal importance , when this absence does not manifestly depend on unsuitability to the support of the group , and especially when there is now no physical barrier preventing their entrance ...
... absence of certain families or genera is of equal importance , when this absence does not manifestly depend on unsuitability to the support of the group , and especially when there is now no physical barrier preventing their entrance ...
Page 350
... absence in their case will prove little ; yet on making the same com- parison in the case of Borneo , the most peculiar and the least known of the other portions of the sub - region , we find only 2 genera absent which are found in the ...
... absence in their case will prove little ; yet on making the same com- parison in the case of Borneo , the most peculiar and the least known of the other portions of the sub - region , we find only 2 genera absent which are found in the ...
Page 430
... absent from Celebes . Important Families of Java and Borneo absent from Celebes . Important Families of the Moluccas ... absence of the excessively abundant Timaliide of the Indo - Malay islands , which are represented by only a single ...
... absent from Celebes . Important Families of Java and Borneo absent from Celebes . Important Families of the Moluccas ... absence of the excessively abundant Timaliide of the Indo - Malay islands , which are represented by only a single ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros snakes South America southern sub-region Sumatra tapir Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions