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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... range , rivalling the Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent of ...
... range , rivalling the Himalayas in altitude and far surpassing them in extent , and which , being wholly situated within the region and running through eighty degrees of latitude , offers a variety of conditions and an extent of ...
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... 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 over all the tropical ...
... 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 over all the tropical ...
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... range into the Nearctic region , as well as a very large number of pecu- liar or characteristic genera . As the orders of reptiles differ considerably in their distributional features , they must be con- sidered separately . The snakes ...
... range into the Nearctic region , as well as a very large number of pecu- liar or characteristic genera . As the orders of reptiles differ considerably in their distributional features , they must be con- sidered separately . The snakes ...
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... range over most parts of the region ; and Dactylozodes , confined to the south temperate zone . Of im- portant genera which range beyond the region , Dicerca is mainly Nearctic and Palearctic ; Cinyra has a species in North America and ...
... range over most parts of the region ; and Dactylozodes , confined to the south temperate zone . Of im- portant genera which range beyond the region , Dicerca is mainly Nearctic and Palearctic ; Cinyra has a species in North America and ...
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... range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented by the allied Pipride or manakins , the greater part of the genera and species occurring in Eastern South America , that is in Brazil , Guiana , and the surrounding lowlands ...
... range of the Andes . Almost the same phenomena are presented by the allied Pipride or manakins , the greater part of the genera and species occurring in Eastern South America , that is in Brazil , Guiana , and the surrounding lowlands ...
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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