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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... REGIONS AND SUB - REGIONS , WITH THE INDICATIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MU- TATIONS . CHAPTER XIV . THE NEOTROPICAL REGION . General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region ( p . 5 ) -Distinctive Charac- ters of Neotropical ...
... REGIONS AND SUB - REGIONS , WITH THE INDICATIONS THEY AFFORD OF GEOGRAPHICAL MU- TATIONS . CHAPTER XIV . THE NEOTROPICAL REGION . General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region ( p . 5 ) -Distinctive Charac- ters of Neotropical ...
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... NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the order best adapted to exhibit them in a tabular form , and to show the affinities of the several regions ...
... NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the order best adapted to exhibit them in a tabular form , and to show the affinities of the several regions ...
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... Neotropical region as a whole , the greater part of which will apply to this sub - region , we must here confine ourselves to an indication of the more important groups which , on the one hand , are confined to it , and on the other are ...
... Neotropical region as a whole , the greater part of which will apply to this sub - region , we must here confine ourselves to an indication of the more important groups which , on the one hand , are confined to it , and on the other are ...
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... sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate North America , which pass the winter here ; with some northern forms on the high - lands ; and with a ...
... sub - region are of Neotropical families and genera , but these are intermingled with a number of migrants from temperate North America , which pass the winter here ; with some northern forms on the high - lands ; and with a ...
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... Sub - regions . Range beyond the Region . 62. Haploodontida 66. Cercolabida 69. Lagomyid¿ 70. Leporida MARSUPIALIA ... Neotropical Palearctic All regions but Australian Neotropical Almost cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite Palearctic ...
... Sub - regions . Range beyond the Region . 62. Haploodontida 66. Cercolabida 69. Lagomyid¿ 70. Leporida MARSUPIALIA ... Neotropical Palearctic All regions but Australian Neotropical Almost cosmopolite Almost cosmopolite Palearctic ...
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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