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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Page 18
... Zealand ; Acanthoderes has one species in Europe , W. Africa , and Australia , respectively ; Spalacopsis has a species in W. Africa ; Pachypeza is common to S. America and the Philip- pines ; Mesosa is Oriental and Palearctic , but has ...
... Zealand ; Acanthoderes has one species in Europe , W. Africa , and Australia , respectively ; Spalacopsis has a species in W. Africa ; Pachypeza is common to S. America and the Philip- pines ; Mesosa is Oriental and Palearctic , but has ...
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... Zealand fauna and flora . I. South Temperate America , or the Chilian Sub - region . This sub - region may be generally defined as the temperate portion of South America . On the south , it commences with the cold damp forests of Tierra ...
... Zealand fauna and flora . I. South Temperate America , or the Chilian Sub - region . This sub - region may be generally defined as the temperate portion of South America . On the south , it commences with the cold damp forests of Tierra ...
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... Neotropical , and one genus inhabits New Zealand . The Chilian genus Calyptocephalus is allied to Australian tropical genera . The Neotropical genera of Ranid¿ , five of which extend. CHAP . XIV . ] 41 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... Neotropical , and one genus inhabits New Zealand . The Chilian genus Calyptocephalus is allied to Australian tropical genera . The Neotropical genera of Ranid¿ , five of which extend. CHAP . XIV . ] 41 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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... Zealand . Still more remarkable is Galaxias ( forming the family Galaxide ) , the species of which are divided between Temperate South America , and Australia , Tas- mania , and New Zealand ; and there is even one species ( Galaxias ...
... Zealand . Still more remarkable is Galaxias ( forming the family Galaxide ) , the species of which are divided between Temperate South America , and Australia , Tas- mania , and New Zealand ; and there is even one species ( Galaxias ...
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... sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the Australian region , when treating of the origin and affinities of the New Zealand fauna , Islands of the South Temperate Sub - region . These. 48 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... sufficiently discussed in our chapter on the Australian region , when treating of the origin and affinities of the New Zealand fauna , Islands of the South Temperate Sub - region . These. 48 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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