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
... indicate a very remote origin ; and a long - continued isolation of South America from the rest of the world is required , in order to account for the preservation and development of so many distinct groups of comparatively low - type ...
... indicate a very remote origin ; and a long - continued isolation of South America from the rest of the world is required , in order to account for the preservation and development of so many distinct groups of comparatively low - type ...
Page 15
... indicate the unimaginable combinations of form and colour they present . It must be sufficient to say that nothing elsewhere on the globe at all resembles them . In Lycænidæ the world- wide genus Thecla is wonderfully developed , and ...
... indicate the unimaginable combinations of form and colour they present . It must be sufficient to say that nothing elsewhere on the globe at all resembles them . In Lycænidæ the world- wide genus Thecla is wonderfully developed , and ...
Page 17
... indicated by these insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region . Longicornia . The Neotropical Longicorn Coleoptera are over- whelming in their numbers and variety , their singularity and their beauty . In the ...
... indicated by these insects has already been sufficiently noticed under the latter region . Longicornia . The Neotropical Longicorn Coleoptera are over- whelming in their numbers and variety , their singularity and their beauty . In the ...
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... indicated by the Mammalia of this sub - region is towards the Ethiopian region , 2 genera of Echimyidae , Aulacodes and Petromys , occurring in South and South - east Africa . Plate IV . Characteristic Neotropical Mammalia . - Our ...
... indicated by the Mammalia of this sub - region is towards the Ethiopian region , 2 genera of Echimyidae , Aulacodes and Petromys , occurring in South and South - east Africa . Plate IV . Characteristic Neotropical Mammalia . - Our ...
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... indicate successive immigrations at remote intervals . Coleoptera . It is among the beetles of South Temperate America that we find some of the most curious examples of remote affinities , and traces of ancient migrations . The Carabida ...
... indicate successive immigrations at remote intervals . Coleoptera . It is among the beetles of South Temperate America that we find some of the most curious examples of remote affinities , and traces of ancient migrations . The Carabida ...
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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