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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... species ; Tanagridæ , with 43 genera and 300 species ; Den- drocolaptide with 43 genera and more than 200 species ; and many other very large groups . There are nearly 600 genera peculiar to the Neotropical region ; but in using this number ...
... species ; Tanagridæ , with 43 genera and 300 species ; Den- drocolaptide with 43 genera and more than 200 species ; and many other very large groups . There are nearly 600 genera peculiar to the Neotropical region ; but in using this number ...
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... species ; alone constituting a very important feature in the entomology of the region . But in almost all the other families there are numbers of peculiar genera , amounting in all to about 200 , or not far short of half the total number ...
... species ; alone constituting a very important feature in the entomology of the region . But in almost all the other families there are numbers of peculiar genera , amounting in all to about 200 , or not far short of half the total number ...
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... species not only surpass all others in size and beauty , but some of them ... species being excessively nu- merous , while some of them redeem the character ... number of cosmopolitan or wide - spread genera , this family is represented ...
... species not only surpass all others in size and beauty , but some of them ... species being excessively nu- merous , while some of them redeem the character ... number of cosmopolitan or wide - spread genera , this family is represented ...
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... species . These are all tropical ; but there are also a number of genera ( 26 ) peculiar to Chili and South Temperate America . The most important of these are Antarctia ( 29 sp . ) , all except two or three confined to South Temperate ...
... species . These are all tropical ; but there are also a number of genera ( 26 ) peculiar to Chili and South Temperate America . The most important of these are Antarctia ( 29 sp . ) , all except two or three confined to South Temperate ...
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... species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to ... species in North America and one in Australia ; Curis is divided between Chili ... number possessed by any other region ; and 61 of these are peculiar . The ...
... species are African and half tropical American ; and Euphoria , confined to ... species in North America and one in Australia ; Curis is divided between Chili ... number possessed by any other region ; and 61 of these are peculiar . 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