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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... existing diversities of physical conditions ; and more exact knowledge may enable us to form several provinces or perhaps additional sub - regions . A large proportion of the genera , however , when sufficiently numerous in species ...
... existing diversities of physical conditions ; and more exact knowledge may enable us to form several provinces or perhaps additional sub - regions . A large proportion of the genera , however , when sufficiently numerous in species ...
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... existing diversities of physical conditions ; and more exact knowledge may enable us to form several provinces or perhaps additional sub - regions . A large proportion of the genera , how- ever , when sufficiently numerous in species ...
... existing diversities of physical conditions ; and more exact knowledge may enable us to form several provinces or perhaps additional sub - regions . A large proportion of the genera , how- ever , when sufficiently numerous in species ...
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... existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the order best ...
... existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the order best ...
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... existing continent was dry land before the Andes had acquired their present altitude . The blending of the originally distinct sub - faunas has been no doubt assisted by elevations and depressions of the land or of the ocean , which ...
... existing continent was dry land before the Andes had acquired their present altitude . The blending of the originally distinct sub - faunas has been no doubt assisted by elevations and depressions of the land or of the ocean , which ...
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... change to the colonists . The reptiles are somewhat more difficult to account for . We know , however , that lizards have some means of dispersal over the sea , because we find existing species with an 31 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... change to the colonists . The reptiles are somewhat more difficult to account for . We know , however , that lizards have some means of dispersal over the sea , because we find existing species with an 31 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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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