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 230
... southern latitude and warm climate in which these insects were mostly collected , and the proximity to Formosa and the Malay Islands compared with the enormous distance from Europe , this shows as much Palearctic affinity as can be ...
... southern latitude and warm climate in which these insects were mostly collected , and the proximity to Formosa and the Malay Islands compared with the enormous distance from Europe , this shows as much Palearctic affinity as can be ...
Page 287
... southern continent which must at one time have extended eastward as far as Southern India and Ceylon ; and over the whole of this the lemurine type no doubt prevailed . During some portion of this period , South Temperate Africa must ...
... southern continent which must at one time have extended eastward as far as Southern India and Ceylon ; and over the whole of this the lemurine type no doubt prevailed . During some portion of this period , South Temperate Africa must ...
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... southern ex- tension of New Zealand . At all events they form points which would aid the transmission of many organisms ; and the farthest of the Macquaries ' group , Emerald Island , is only 600 miles from the outlying islets of ...
... southern ex- tension of New Zealand . At all events they form points which would aid the transmission of many organisms ; and the farthest of the Macquaries ' group , Emerald Island , is only 600 miles from the outlying islets of ...
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