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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... Reptiles . The Neotropical region is very rich in varied forms of reptile life , and the species are very abundant . It has six altogether peculiar families , and several others which only range CHAP . XIV . ] 9 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... Reptiles . The Neotropical region is very rich in varied forms of reptile life , and the species are very abundant . It has six altogether peculiar families , and several others which only range CHAP . XIV . ] 9 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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... abundant in the Oriental region , but found also in the Austro - Malay islands and Tropical South America . Sixteen of the families of snakes occur in the region , the Colubrida , Amblycephalidæ , and Pythonidæ , being those which are ...
... abundant in the Oriental region , but found also in the Austro - Malay islands and Tropical South America . Sixteen of the families of snakes occur in the region , the Colubrida , Amblycephalidæ , and Pythonidæ , being those which are ...
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... abundant and cha- racteristic of all , but is not wholly peculiar , there being a species in the Malay archipelago . Tetracha , another large genus , has species in Australia and a few in North America and Europe . The small genus ...
... abundant and cha- racteristic of all , but is not wholly peculiar , there being a species in the Malay archipelago . Tetracha , another large genus , has species in Australia and a few in North America and Europe . The small genus ...
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... abundant in the West Indian Islands . The Cyclostomidae are represented by 15 genera , 9 being peculiar to the region , and 5 of these ( belonging to the sub- family Licinidae ) to the Antilles only . Of these peculiar genera Cistula ...
... abundant in the West Indian Islands . The Cyclostomidae are represented by 15 genera , 9 being peculiar to the region , and 5 of these ( belonging to the sub- family Licinidae ) to the Antilles only . Of these peculiar genera Cistula ...
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... abundant , showing a difference of physical conditions that must have greatly influenced the development of mollusca . When these various counteracting influences are taken into consideration , the identity or close affinity of about ...
... abundant , showing a difference of physical conditions that must have greatly influenced the development of mollusca . When these various counteracting influences are taken into consideration , the identity or close affinity of about ...
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