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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... forms which is a general feature of ancient insular groups , but also by a number of peculiar generic types , some of which are quite foreign to the remainder of the region . We must exclude , however , the islands of Trinidad , Tobago ...
... forms which is a general feature of ancient insular groups , but also by a number of peculiar generic types , some of which are quite foreign to the remainder of the region . We must exclude , however , the islands of Trinidad , Tobago ...
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... forms which is a general feature of ancient insular groups , but also by a number of peculiar generic types , some of which are quite foreign to the remainder of the region . We must exclude , however , the islands of Trinidad , Tobago ...
... forms which is a general feature of ancient insular groups , but also by a number of peculiar generic types , some of which are quite foreign to the remainder of the region . We must exclude , however , the islands of Trinidad , Tobago ...
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... forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General ... peculiar family and generic types . It has eight families of Mammalia ... peculiar groups of carnivora and of Muridæ , making a total of full a hundred genera ...
... forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General ... peculiar family and generic types . It has eight families of Mammalia ... peculiar groups of carnivora and of Muridæ , making a total of full a hundred genera ...
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... forms of animal life . Passing on to the parrot tribe , we find the peculiar family of the Conuridae , of which the macaws are the highest development , very largely represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again ...
... forms of animal life . Passing on to the parrot tribe , we find the peculiar family of the Conuridae , of which the macaws are the highest development , very largely represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again ...
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... peculiar families , and several others which only range into the Nearctic ... forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic genera , the most ... peculiar , and 4 more extend only to N. America . The peculiar families are Helodermidæ ...
... peculiar families , and several others which only range into the Nearctic ... forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic genera , the most ... peculiar , and 4 more extend only to N. America . The peculiar families are Helodermidæ ...
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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