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. köide |
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We may expect these numbers to be largely increased and many new genera to
be added , when the extensive collections made by Agassiz in Brazil are
described . Summary of Neotropical Vertebrates . — Summarizing the preceding
facts ...
We may expect these numbers to be largely increased and many new genera to
be added , when the extensive collections made by Agassiz in Brazil are
described . Summary of Neotropical Vertebrates . — Summarizing the preceding
facts ...
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Tropical South - America , or the Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district
may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of South America ,
including all the open plains and pasture lands , surrounded by , or intimately ...
Tropical South - America , or the Brazilian Sub - region . This extensive district
may be defined as consisting of all the tropical forest - region of South America ,
including all the open plains and pasture lands , surrounded by , or intimately ...
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The interior of Brazil is thus in the position of a great island - plateau , rising out of
, and surrounded by , a lowland region of ... The Brazilian subregion comprises
all this forest - country and its included open tracts , and so far beyond it as there
...
The interior of Brazil is thus in the position of a great island - plateau , rising out of
, and surrounded by , a lowland region of ... The Brazilian subregion comprises
all this forest - country and its included open tracts , and so far beyond it as there
...
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Many of the most remarkable of the American monkeys are limited to this sub -
region ; as Lagothrix , Pithecia , and Brachyurus , limited to the great Amazonian
forests ; Eriodes to south - east Brazil ; and Callithrix to tropical South America .
Many of the most remarkable of the American monkeys are limited to this sub -
region ; as Lagothrix , Pithecia , and Brachyurus , limited to the great Amazonian
forests ; Eriodes to south - east Brazil ; and Callithrix to tropical South America .
Page 23
The interior of Brazil is thus in the position of a great island - plateau , rising out of
, and surrounded by , a lowland region of ... The Brazilian subregion comprises
all this forest - country and its included open tracts , and so far beyond it as there
...
The interior of Brazil is thus in the position of a great island - plateau , rising out of
, and surrounded by , a lowland region of ... The Brazilian subregion comprises
all this forest - country and its included open tracts , and so far beyond it as there
...
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Page 512 - ... distribution has to contend against, is the total absence of geographical collections, and the almost total want of complete and comparable local catalogues. Till every wellmarked district, — every archipelago, and every important island, has all its known species of the more important groups of animals catalogued on a uniform plan, and with a uniform nomenclature, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution of Animals will not be possible.
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| Title | 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. köide Marilee E. Thomas and Robert C. Thomas Science and Related Subjects Collection 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, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 juuli 2008 |
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