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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... allied to them . The Erycinidæ , consisting of 59 genera and 560 species , comprise the most varied and beautiful of small butterflies ; and it would be useless to attempt to indicate the unimaginable combinations of form and colour ...
... allied to them . The Erycinidæ , consisting of 59 genera and 560 species , comprise the most varied and beautiful of small butterflies ; and it would be useless to attempt to indicate the unimaginable combinations of form and colour ...
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... allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to the Australian Lamprima . The other genera present no remarkable features ; but ...
... allied genera , Pholidotus and Sphenognathus , inhabit Tropical South America . Streptocerus confined to Chili , is interesting , as being allied to the Australian Lamprima . The other genera present no remarkable features ; but ...
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... allied to the European Trichius . The non - peculiar genera are , Stethodesma , of which half the species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to America both North and South . Buprestida . In this fine group ...
... allied to the European Trichius . The non - peculiar genera are , Stethodesma , of which half the species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to America both North and South . Buprestida . In this fine group ...
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... allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the ...
... allied to existing Pacific forms , than to those of the Atlantic or even of the Caribbean Sea . NEOTROPICAL SUB - REGIONS . In the concluding part of this work devoted to geographical zoology , the sub - regions are arranged in the ...
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... allied Pipride or manakins , the greater part of the genera and species occurring in Eastern South America , that is in Brazil , Guiana , and the surrounding lowlands rather than in the Andean valleys . The same may be said of the ...
... allied Pipride or manakins , the greater part of the genera and species occurring in Eastern South America , that is in Brazil , Guiana , and the surrounding lowlands rather than in the Andean valleys . The same may be said of the ...
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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