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 18
... Tasmania , and the rest in South America , North America , and Europe ; Phaa is wholly Neo- tropical , except two species in the Philippine Islands . General Conclusions as to the Neotropical Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of ...
... Tasmania , and the rest in South America , North America , and Europe ; Phaa is wholly Neo- tropical , except two species in the Philippine Islands . General Conclusions as to the Neotropical Insect - fauna.- Looking at the insects of ...
Page 42
... Tasmania , and New Zealand ; and there is even one species ( Galaxias attenuatus ) which is found in the Chatham Islands , New Zealand , and Tasmania , as well as in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia . Fitzroya ( 1 sp . ) is found only ...
... Tasmania , and New Zealand ; and there is even one species ( Galaxias attenuatus ) which is found in the Chatham Islands , New Zealand , and Tasmania , as well as in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia . Fitzroya ( 1 sp . ) is found only ...
Page 42
... Tasmania , as well as in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia . Fitzroya ( 1 sp . ) is found only at Montevideo ; Orestias ( 6 sp . ) is peculiar to Lake Titicaca in the high Andes of Bolivia ; Jenynsid ( 1 sp . ) in the Rio de la Plata ...
... Tasmania , as well as in the Falkland Islands and Patagonia . Fitzroya ( 1 sp . ) is found only at Montevideo ; Orestias ( 6 sp . ) is peculiar to Lake Titicaca in the high Andes of Bolivia ; Jenynsid ( 1 sp . ) in the Rio de la Plata ...
Page 76
... Tasmania ; and we have a still more striking example in the Antillean group itself , continental Trinidad having only 20 genera and 38 species , while the highly insular Jamaica has about 30 genera and more than 500 species . The other ...
... Tasmania ; and we have a still more striking example in the Antillean group itself , continental Trinidad having only 20 genera and 38 species , while the highly insular Jamaica has about 30 genera and more than 500 species . The other ...
Page 89
... regions Ethiopian S. Australia Tasmania and New Zealand Absent from Australia All tropical regions Oriental , Australian , ( ? marine ) Order and Family . Sub - regions . Brazil . CHAP . XIV . ] 89 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION . ge.
... regions Ethiopian S. Australia Tasmania and New Zealand Absent from Australia All tropical regions Oriental , Australian , ( ? marine ) Order and Family . Sub - regions . Brazil . CHAP . XIV . ] 89 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION . ge.
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