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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... Arctic Region " finds no place in this work may therefore be here stated . No species or group of animals can properly be classed as " arctic , " which does not exclusively inhabit or greatly prepon- derate in arctic lands . For the ...
... Arctic Region " finds no place in this work may therefore be here stated . No species or group of animals can properly be classed as " arctic , " which does not exclusively inhabit or greatly prepon- derate in arctic lands . For the ...
Page 70
... arctic , Ethiopian , and Oriental regions , and contains a number of " desert " forms wholly or almost wholly restricted to it ; but the attempt to define it as a separate region would introduce difficulty and confusion . Neither to the ...
... arctic , Ethiopian , and Oriental regions , and contains a number of " desert " forms wholly or almost wholly restricted to it ; but the attempt to define it as a separate region would introduce difficulty and confusion . Neither to the ...
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... Arctic sea 1 N. China ) 1 S. Europe & N. Africa , Palestine 1 N. Africa , Spain [ ? ] , Palestine ) 1 N. Africa and S. W. Asia 4 The whole region 1 Japan , Amoorland , N China 7 N. Europe and Asia , E. Thibet 3 W. Europe to N. E. Asia ...
... Arctic sea 1 N. China ) 1 S. Europe & N. Africa , Palestine 1 N. Africa , Spain [ ? ] , Palestine ) 1 N. Africa and S. W. Asia 4 The whole region 1 Japan , Amoorland , N China 7 N. Europe and Asia , E. Thibet 3 W. Europe to N. E. Asia ...
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