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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Page 15
... Madagascar . Another family of day - flying moths , the Castniidæ , is almost equally divided between the Neotropical and Australian regions , although the genera are more numerous in the latter . The American Castnias are large , thick ...
... Madagascar . Another family of day - flying moths , the Castniidæ , is almost equally divided between the Neotropical and Australian regions , although the genera are more numerous in the latter . The American Castnias are large , thick ...
Page 48
... Madagascar - both areas strikingly deficient in the higher vertebrate forms . The probable mode and time of the cross migration between Australia and South America , has been sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the Australian ...
... Madagascar - both areas strikingly deficient in the higher vertebrate forms . The probable mode and time of the cross migration between Australia and South America , has been sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the Australian ...
Page 62
... by a genus belonging to a family largely developed in Madagascar and found nowhere else . The early voyagers mention " Coatis " and " Agoutis " as being found in Hayti and the other large islands , and 62 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... by a genus belonging to a family largely developed in Madagascar and found nowhere else . The early voyagers mention " Coatis " and " Agoutis " as being found in Hayti and the other large islands , and 62 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... Madagascar , where a group of animals are found constituting the family Centetidæ , to which Solenodon is said undoubtedly to belong . Above it are a pair of hutias ( Capromys fournieri ) , rat - like animals belonging to the South ...
... Madagascar , where a group of animals are found constituting the family Centetidæ , to which Solenodon is said undoubtedly to belong . Above it are a pair of hutias ( Capromys fournieri ) , rat - like animals belonging to the South ...
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... Madagascar , indicated by Solenodon , and a few cases of African and Asiatic affinity in insects and land - shells ; but these are far too scanty to call for any attempt at special explanation . Such cases of remote affinity and ...
... Madagascar , indicated by Solenodon , and a few cases of African and Asiatic affinity in insects and land - shells ; but these are far too scanty to call for any attempt at special explanation . Such cases of remote affinity and ...
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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