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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... Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 12 ) -Insects ( p . 13 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 15 ) -Land Shells ( p . 19 ) -Marine Shells ( p . 20 ) -Brazilian Sub - region ( p . 21 ) - Its Mammalia ( p . 23 ) -Its Birds ( p . 24 ) -Islands of Tropical South ...
... Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 12 ) -Insects ( p . 13 ) -Coleoptera ( p . 15 ) -Land Shells ( p . 19 ) -Marine Shells ( p . 20 ) -Brazilian Sub - region ( p . 21 ) - Its Mammalia ( p . 23 ) -Its Birds ( p . 24 ) -Islands of Tropical South ...
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... FRESH WATER . Acanthopterygii ( p . 424 ) -Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi ( p . 437 ) -Anacan- thini ( p . 439 ) -Physostomi ( p . 441 ) -Lophobranchii ( p . 456 ) -Plectognathi ( p . 457 ) Sirenoidei ( p . 458 ) -Ganoidei ( p . 458 ) ...
... FRESH WATER . Acanthopterygii ( p . 424 ) -Acanthopterygii Pharyngognathi ( p . 437 ) -Anacan- thini ( p . 439 ) -Physostomi ( p . 441 ) -Lophobranchii ( p . 456 ) -Plectognathi ( p . 457 ) Sirenoidei ( p . 458 ) -Ganoidei ( p . 458 ) ...
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... Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 549 ) -Insects ( p . 550 ) -Terrestrial Mollusca ( p . 551 ) -Conclusion ( p . 552 ) • 540-553 GENERAL INDEX 557 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL . II . To face. viii CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME .
... Fresh - water Fishes ( p . 549 ) -Insects ( p . 550 ) -Terrestrial Mollusca ( p . 551 ) -Conclusion ( p . 552 ) • 540-553 GENERAL INDEX 557 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL . II . To face. viii CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME .
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... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of. CHAP . XIV . ] 11 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of. CHAP . XIV . ] 11 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of Tropical America abound in fish of many strange forms and peculiar types . Three fami- lies , and three sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120 ...
... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of Tropical America abound in fish of many strange forms and peculiar types . Three fami- lies , and three sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120 ...
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