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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... forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise neotropical zoology to a degree nowhere else to be met with . Together with this variety and richness , there is a remarkable uniformity of animal life ...
... forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise neotropical zoology to a degree nowhere else to be met with . Together with this variety and richness , there is a remarkable uniformity of animal life ...
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... form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last ... forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region ...
... form but one sub - region . The portion of North America that lies within the tropics , closely resembles the last ... forms , to some extent , a transition to the Nearctic region . General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region ...
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... form- ing a separate sub - family , and differing from all other genera in their dentition , the absence of tail and ... forms of that order . We have already arrived at the conclusion that the presence of marsupials in South America is ...
... form- ing a separate sub - family , and differing from all other genera in their dentition , the absence of tail and ... forms of that order . We have already arrived at the conclusion that the presence of marsupials in South America is ...
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... forms out of some ancestral swift - like type ; how complete and long continued the isolation of their birth- place to have allowed of their modification and adaptation to such divergent climates and conditions , yet never to have per ...
... forms out of some ancestral swift - like type ; how complete and long continued the isolation of their birth- place to have allowed of their modification and adaptation to such divergent climates and conditions , yet never to have per ...
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... forms of exquisite beauty , and in an endless profusion of species , that no adequate idea of this branch of its ... form a better notion of the vast wealth of insect life in this region , than a more general and picturesque description ...
... forms of exquisite beauty , and in an endless profusion of species , that no adequate idea of this branch of its ... form a better notion of the vast wealth of insect life in this region , than a more general and picturesque description ...
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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