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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... represented by the very distinct genus Dicotyles ( Peccary ) form- ing a separate sub - family , and differing from all other genera in their dentition , the absence of tail and of one of the toes of the hind feet , the possession of a ...
... represented by the very distinct genus Dicotyles ( Peccary ) form- ing a separate sub - family , and differing from all other genera in their dentition , the absence of tail and of one of the toes of the hind feet , the possession of a ...
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... represented in America ; no family being exclusively Neotropical , and only three being at all fully represented in South America , though they comprise the great mass of the Old World passeres . These peculiarities , which group ...
... represented in America ; no family being exclusively Neotropical , and only three being at all fully represented in South America , though they comprise the great mass of the Old World passeres . These peculiarities , which group ...
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... represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again meet with wholly isolated groups . The Cracidæ , in- cluding the curassows and guans , have no immediate relations with any of the Old World families . Professor Huxley ...
... represented . It is in the gallinaceous birds however that we again meet with wholly isolated groups . The Cracidæ , in- cluding the curassows and guans , have no immediate relations with any of the Old World families . Professor Huxley ...
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... represented by peculiar forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic genera , the most important being Dromicus ( Colubrida ) ; Boa , Epicrates , and Ungalia ( Pythonida ) ; Elaps ( Elapide ) ; and Craspedocephalus ( Crotalida ) ...
... represented by peculiar forms . There are 25 pecu- liar or characteristic genera , the most important being Dromicus ( Colubrida ) ; Boa , Epicrates , and Ungalia ( Pythonida ) ; Elaps ( Elapide ) ; and Craspedocephalus ( Crotalida ) ...
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... represented by two peculiar genera , Siphonopsis and Rhinatrema . Tailed Batrachians are almost unknown , only a few species of Spelerpes ( Salamandrida ) enter- ing Central America , and one extending as far south as the Andes of ...
... represented by two peculiar genera , Siphonopsis and Rhinatrema . Tailed Batrachians are almost unknown , only a few species of Spelerpes ( Salamandrida ) enter- ing Central America , and one extending as far south as the Andes of ...
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