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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... Central America and the Antilles ; Bulimus , containing many large and handsome species in South America ; Stenogyra , widely spread in the tropics ; and Streptaxis , in Tropical South America . Among the Operculata , the Aciculidæ are ...
... Central America and the Antilles ; Bulimus , containing many large and handsome species in South America ; Stenogyra , widely spread in the tropics ; and Streptaxis , in Tropical South America . Among the Operculata , the Aciculidæ are ...
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... Central America has been partially submerged up to comparatively re- cent geological times . Yet another proof of this former union of two oceans is to be found in the fossil corals of the Antilles of the Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan ...
... Central America has been partially submerged up to comparatively re- cent geological times . Yet another proof of this former union of two oceans is to be found in the fossil corals of the Antilles of the Miocene age , which Dr. Duncan ...
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... central Brazil and the Andes , is remarkable , as it is cut off from all its allies , the genus not being known to occur elsewhere on the continent further south than Costa Rica . The only important external relation indicated by the ...
... central Brazil and the Andes , is remarkable , as it is cut off from all its allies , the genus not being known to occur elsewhere on the continent further south than Costa Rica . The only important external relation indicated by the ...
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... central and most conspicuous figure is the collared ant - eater , ( Tamandua tetradactyla ) , one of the handsomest of the family , in its conspicuous livery of black and white . To the left are a pair of sloths ( Arctopithecus ...
... central and most conspicuous figure is the collared ant - eater , ( Tamandua tetradactyla ) , one of the handsomest of the family , in its conspicuous livery of black and white . To the left are a pair of sloths ( Arctopithecus ...
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... Yucatan , the whole of Central America is clothed with forests ; and as its surface is much broken up into hill and valley , and the volcanic soil of a large portion of it is very fertile. CHAP . XIV . ] 51 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... Yucatan , the whole of Central America is clothed with forests ; and as its surface is much broken up into hill and valley , and the volcanic soil of a large portion of it is very fertile. CHAP . XIV . ] 51 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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9 sp abundant affinities allied animals Antilles Arctic Asia AUSTRALIAN NEOTROPICAL NEARCTIC Australian region belonging birds Bolivia Borneo Brazil California Canada carnivorous Celebes Ceylon characteristic Chili China coast Columbia confined Costa Rica Cuba DISTRIBUTION.-The East Eastern Ecuador Eocene ETHIOPIAN ORIENTAL AUSTRALIAN Ethiopian region extending extinct fauna Fresh-water fishes genera genus globe Guatemala Guiana Guinea Hayti 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 Paraguay Patagonia peculiar genera Peru Plata Plate 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