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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... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub - regions is a matter of some difficulty . There is , however , no doubt about separating the West Indian islands as forming a well - marked subdivision ...
... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub - regions is a matter of some difficulty . There is , however , no doubt about separating the West Indian islands as forming a well - marked subdivision ...
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... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub - regions is a matter of some difficulty . There is , however , no doubt about separating the West Indian islands as forming a well - marked subdivision ...
... tropical continental portions of the region , so that its division into sub - regions is a matter of some difficulty . There is , however , no doubt about separating the West Indian islands as forming a well - marked subdivision ...
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... region is even richer and more isolated . It possesses no less than 23 families wholly confined within its limits ... tropical regions . Distinctive Characters of Neotropical Mammalia . - It is im- portant also to consider the kind ...
... region is even richer and more isolated . It possesses no less than 23 families wholly confined within its limits ... tropical regions . Distinctive Characters of Neotropical Mammalia . - It is im- portant also to consider the kind ...
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... tropical regions . Casnonia and Lebia are cosmopolite , but most abundant in South America . Pachyteles is mostly South American but with a few species in West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species in South America and two in ...
... tropical regions . Casnonia and Lebia are cosmopolite , but most abundant in South America . Pachyteles is mostly South American but with a few species in West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species in South America and two in ...
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... Tropical America . Some , as the hand- some Cheloderus and Oxypeltus , have ... regions . Ten genera are peculiar ; and most of these are related to ... regions , yet this connection is only seen in certain groups . In Diurnal Lepidop ...
... Tropical America . Some , as the hand- some Cheloderus and Oxypeltus , have ... regions . Ten genera are peculiar ; and most of these are related to ... regions , yet this connection is only seen in certain groups . In Diurnal Lepidop ...
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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