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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... river banks ( Eurypyga ) ; and the horned screamers ( Palamedea ) , all form distinct and isolated families of birds , to which the Old World offers nothing directly comparable . Reptiles . The Neotropical region is very rich in varied ...
... river banks ( Eurypyga ) ; and the horned screamers ( Palamedea ) , all form distinct and isolated families of birds , to which the Old World offers nothing directly comparable . Reptiles . The Neotropical region is very rich in varied ...
Page 11
... river - turtles of the genus Podocnemys rival in size the largest species of true marine turtles ( Cheloniida ) , and are equally good for food . Amphibia . - The Neotropical region ... rivers of. CHAP . XIV . ] 11 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
... river - turtles of the genus Podocnemys rival in size the largest species of true marine turtles ( Cheloniida ) , and are equally good for food . Amphibia . - The Neotropical region ... rivers of. CHAP . XIV . ] 11 THE NEOTROPICAL REGION .
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... 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. The peculiar families are Poly ...
... 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. The peculiar families are Poly ...
Page 113
... river- system of the Mississippi , second only to that of the Amazon ; and in its vast group of fresh - water lakes or inland seas , it possesses a feature unmatched by any other region , except perhaps by the Ethiopian . It possesses ...
... river- system of the Mississippi , second only to that of the Amazon ; and in its vast group of fresh - water lakes or inland seas , it possesses a feature unmatched by any other region , except perhaps by the Ethiopian . It possesses ...
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... river system of the Mississippi , to which the Palearctic region has nothing com- parable . But although somewhat deficient in the total number of its families , this region possesses its full proportion of peculiar and characteristic ...
... river system of the Mississippi , to which the Palearctic region has nothing com- parable . But although somewhat deficient in the total number of its families , this region possesses its full proportion of peculiar and characteristic ...
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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