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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... belonging to the carnivora , and Didel- phyidæ , a family of marsupials , only extend into the Nearctic region . It has also many peculiar groups of carnivora and of Muridæ , making a total of full a hundred genera confined to the ...
... belonging to the carnivora , and Didel- phyidæ , a family of marsupials , only extend into the Nearctic region . It has also many peculiar groups of carnivora and of Muridæ , making a total of full a hundred genera confined to the ...
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... belonging to the Eastern hemisphere being of small extent . Another group of ten families - our " Tanagroid Passeres , " are characterised by the abortion or very rudimentary condition of the first quill ; and of these , five are ...
... belonging to the Eastern hemisphere being of small extent . Another group of ten families - our " Tanagroid Passeres , " are characterised by the abortion or very rudimentary condition of the first quill ; and of these , five are ...
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... belonging to the former family , -Peltocephalus , Podo- cnemis , Hydromedusa , and Chelys , to the latter . Some of the Amazon river - turtles of the genus Podocnemys rival in size the largest species of true marine turtles ( Cheloniida ) ...
... belonging to the former family , -Peltocephalus , Podo- cnemis , Hydromedusa , and Chelys , to the latter . Some of the Amazon river - turtles of the genus Podocnemys rival in size the largest species of true marine turtles ( Cheloniida ) ...
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... belonging to two genera . Of the extensive family Silurida , three sub - families Silurida anomalo- pteræ , S ... belong to the Perch family ( Percida ) ; Acharnes , found only in Guiana , belongs to the Nandida , a family of wide range ...
... belonging to two genera . Of the extensive family Silurida , three sub - families Silurida anomalo- pteræ , S ... belong to the Perch family ( Percida ) ; Acharnes , found only in Guiana , belongs to the Nandida , a family of wide range ...
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... 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 ...
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