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. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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Page 15
... sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120. The peculiar families are Poly- centrida , with two genera ; Gymnotida , a family which includes the electric eels , ( 5 genera ) ; and Trygonidæ , the ...
... sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120. The peculiar families are Poly- centrida , with two genera ; Gymnotida , a family which includes the electric eels , ( 5 genera ) ; and Trygonidæ , the ...
Page 53
... sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate North America , which pass the winter here ; with some northern forms on the high - lands ; and with a ...
... sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate North America , which pass the winter here ; with some northern forms on the high - lands ; and with a ...
Page 128
... family , is quite pecu- liar ; Geococcyx , a Neotropical form of cuckoo , extends to California and Southern Texas . The following genera are very character- istic of the sub - region , and some of them almost confined to it ...
... family , is quite pecu- liar ; Geococcyx , a Neotropical form of cuckoo , extends to California and Southern Texas . The following genera are very character- istic of the sub - region , and some of them almost confined to it ...
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... FAMILY 4. - CEBIDE . ( 10 Genera , 78 Species . ) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION . ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . 2.3 ...
... FAMILY 4. - CEBIDE . ( 10 Genera , 78 Species . ) GENERAL DISTRIBUTION . ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC PALEARCTIC ETHIOPIAN SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . SUB - REGIONS . 2.3 ...
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... Sub - family , Mycetinæ , consists of but a single genus , Mycetes ( 10 sp . ) , the howling monkeys , characterized by having a hollow bony vessel in the throat formed by an enlargement of the hyoid bone , which enables them to produce ...
... Sub - family , Mycetinæ , consists of but a single genus , Mycetes ( 10 sp . ) , the howling monkeys , characterized by having a hollow bony vessel in the throat formed by an enlargement of the hyoid bone , which enables them to produce ...
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