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. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 358
... river districts ; but we have here , apparently , a case of a number of well - marked species of birds capable of flight , yet with their range in certain directions accurately defined by great rivers . ( Plate XV . Vol . II . p . 28 ...
... river districts ; but we have here , apparently , a case of a number of well - marked species of birds capable of flight , yet with their range in certain directions accurately defined by great rivers . ( Plate XV . Vol . II . p . 28 ...
Page 434
... rivers of India and the Malay Islands ; Acharnes the rivers of British Guiana . " " FAMILY 34. - POLYCENTRIDÆ . ( 2 Genera , 3 Species . ) Fresh - water carnivorous fishes , with compressed elevated scaly bodies , and many - spined ...
... rivers of India and the Malay Islands ; Acharnes the rivers of British Guiana . " " FAMILY 34. - POLYCENTRIDÆ . ( 2 Genera , 3 Species . ) Fresh - water carnivorous fishes , with compressed elevated scaly bodies , and many - spined ...
Page 447
... rivers , others have a wide distribution . The genera are distributed as follows : - Salmo ( 83 sp . ) , rivers and lakes of the Palearctic and Nearctic Regions , as far south as Algeria , Asia Minor , the Hindoo- Koosh and Kamschatka ...
... rivers , others have a wide distribution . The genera are distributed as follows : - Salmo ( 83 sp . ) , rivers and lakes of the Palearctic and Nearctic Regions , as far south as Algeria , Asia Minor , the Hindoo- Koosh and Kamschatka ...
Contents
General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region p 5Distinctive Charac | 15 |
THE NEARCTIC REGION | 113 |
Zoological Characteristics of the Nearctic Region p 115List of Typical | 120 |
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