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 10
... belong to the Teide and Iguanidæ , which thus especially characterize the region . The most important and characteristic genera are the following : Ameiva ( Teide ) ; Gymnopthalmus ( Gymnopthalmida ) ; Celestus and Diploglossus ...
... belong to the Teide and Iguanidæ , which thus especially characterize the region . The most important and characteristic genera are the following : Ameiva ( Teide ) ; Gymnopthalmus ( Gymnopthalmida ) ; Celestus and Diploglossus ...
Page 12
... belong to the Perch family ( Percida ) ; Acharnes , found only in Guiana , belongs to the Nandida , a family of wide range in the tropics ; the Chromidæ , a family of exclusively fresh - water fishes found in the tropics of the Ethio ...
... belong to the Perch family ( Percida ) ; Acharnes , found only in Guiana , belongs to the Nandida , a family of wide range in the tropics ; the Chromidæ , a family of exclusively fresh - water fishes found in the tropics of the Ethio ...
Page 16
... belong to peculiar genera . Those common to other regions are Syndesus , confined to Tropical South America and Australia , and Platycerus which is Palearctic and Nearctic , with one species in Brazil . The most remarkable genus is ...
... belong to peculiar genera . Those common to other regions are Syndesus , confined to Tropical South America and Australia , and Platycerus which is Palearctic and Nearctic , with one species in Brazil . The most remarkable genus is ...
Page 22
... on the Pacific coast as far as to about 5 ° of south latitude , belong to south temperate America , or the sub - region of the Andes . Having already given a sketch of the zoological features of. 22 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... on the Pacific coast as far as to about 5 ° of south latitude , belong to south temperate America , or the sub - region of the Andes . Having already given a sketch of the zoological features of. 22 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
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... belong the cock of the rock ( Rupicola ) , which ranges from Guiana to the Andes , and the marvellous umbrella - birds of the Rio Nigro and Upper Amazon ( Cepha- lopterus ) , which extends across the Ecuadorean Andes and into Costa Rica ...
... belong the cock of the rock ( Rupicola ) , which ranges from Guiana to the Andes , and the marvellous umbrella - birds of the Rio Nigro and Upper Amazon ( Cepha- lopterus ) , which extends across the Ecuadorean Andes and into Costa Rica ...
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