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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Page 10
... single genus each , and only two of them ( Chirocolidæ and Cercosauridae ) have more than a single species . The families which range over both South and North America are Chirotidæ , Chalcidæ , Teidæ , and Iguanidæ ; the first and ...
... single genus each , and only two of them ( Chirocolidæ and Cercosauridae ) have more than a single species . The families which range over both South and North America are Chirotidæ , Chalcidæ , Teidæ , and Iguanidæ ; the first and ...
Page 11
... single genus , and only the second more than a single species ; so that it is not these which give a character to the South American Amphibia - fauna . The most important and best represented families are , Ranidæ ( true frogs ) , with ...
... single genus , and only the second more than a single species ; so that it is not these which give a character to the South American Amphibia - fauna . The most important and best represented families are , Ranidæ ( true frogs ) , with ...
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... species scat- tered over the other tropical regions . Casnonia and Lebia are cosmopolite , but most abundant in South America . Pachyteles is mostly South American but with a few species in West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species ...
... species scat- tered over the other tropical regions . Casnonia and Lebia are cosmopolite , but most abundant in South America . Pachyteles is mostly South American but with a few species in West Africa ; while Lobodonotus has one species ...
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... one species in south tempe- rate America , the rest widely scattered from North America to the Philippines ; Actenodes has a single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java ...
... one species in south tempe- rate America , the rest widely scattered from North America to the Philippines ; Actenodes has a single species in North Ame- rica and another in West Africa ; Colobogaster has two in West Africa , one in Java ...
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... one of the largest and most singularly - marked insects in the whole family . Leptostylus has a single species in New Zealand ; Acanthoderes has one species in Europe , W. Africa , and Australia , respectively ; Spalacopsis has a species ...
... one of the largest and most singularly - marked insects in the whole family . Leptostylus has a single species in New Zealand ; Acanthoderes has one species in Europe , W. Africa , and Australia , respectively ; Spalacopsis has a species ...
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