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. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) -Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) -Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) —Islands of ...
... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) -Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) -Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) —Islands of ...
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... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) —Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) —Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) —Islands of ...
... Islands of Tropical South America , Galapagos ( p . 29 ) —Chilian Sub - region ( p . 36 ) —Birds ( p . 38 ) -Reptiles and Amphibia ( p . 40 ) -Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 42 ) -Lepidoptera ( p . 42 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 44 ) —Islands of ...
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... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
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... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
... islands of Guiana , Brazil , and the Andes . From these concurrent favourable conditions , there has resulted that inexhaustible variety of generic and specific forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which ...
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... Islands . The most recent estimates show that the Antilles contain more species of land shells than all the rest of the region , and almost exactly as many as all continental America , north and south . Mr. Thomas Bland , who has long ...
... Islands . The most recent estimates show that the Antilles contain more species of land shells than all the rest of the region , and almost exactly as many as all continental America , north and south . Mr. Thomas Bland , who has long ...
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belong birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti Hemisphere Himalayas India inhabits insects Jamaica Japan Java Madagascar Malay Mammalia Marine fishes Mexico Miocene Moluccas NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN Nearctic region NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Neotropical region northern number of species occur Ocean Old World ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN SUB-REGIONS Oriental region Pacific PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB-REGIONS Palearctic region PALEARCTIC SUB-REGIONS Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Pliocene possesses range remarkable seas single species South America South Europe South Temperate Southern Sub-family Sumatra Tasmania Tropical America Tropical and South tropical regions Venezuela West Africa West Indian islands Zealand