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Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature of Neotropical
zoology, and no other region can approach it in the number of its peculiar family
and generic types. It has eight families of Mammalia absolutely confined to it,
besides ...
Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature of Neotropical
zoology, and no other region can approach it in the number of its peculiar family
and generic types. It has eight families of Mammalia absolutely confined to it,
besides ...
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The ten families forming the group of “Formicaroid Passeres,” in our arrangement
(vol. i., p. ... families and comprising all the true “singing-birds,” is poorly
represented in America; no family being exclusively Neotropical, and only three
being at ...
The ten families forming the group of “Formicaroid Passeres,” in our arrangement
(vol. i., p. ... families and comprising all the true “singing-birds,” is poorly
represented in America; no family being exclusively Neotropical, and only three
being at ...
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No naturalist can study in detail this single family of birds, without being
profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its
long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe, and the persistence
through ...
No naturalist can study in detail this single family of birds, without being
profoundly impressed with the vast antiquity of the South American continent, its
long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe, and the persistence
through ...
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altogether peculiar families, and several others which only range into the
Nearctic region, as well as a very large ... in the wide average distribution of the
families; so that such an isolated region as the Neotropical possesses no
peculiar family, ...
altogether peculiar families, and several others which only range into the
Nearctic region, as well as a very large ... in the wide average distribution of the
families; so that such an isolated region as the Neotropical possesses no
peculiar family, ...
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The three extensive Old World families Varanidae, Lacertidae, and Agamidae,
are absent from the entire American continent. In the order Crocodilia, America
has the peculiar family of the alligators (Alligatoridae), as well as several species
of ...
The three extensive Old World families Varanidae, Lacertidae, and Agamidae,
are absent from the entire American continent. In the order Crocodilia, America
has the peculiar family of the alligators (Alligatoridae), as well as several species
of ...
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Page 159 - regions, not only now but as far back as we can clearly trace them in the past; and, secondly, of the existing radical diversity of the Australian region from the rest of the Eastern Hemisphere. Owing to the much greater extent of the old
Page 61 - to the great Central American isthmus; yet instead of exhibiting an intermixture of the productions of Florida and Venezuela, they differ widely from both these countries, possessing in some groups a degree of speciality only to be found elsewhere in islands far removed from any continent. They consist of two very large islands, Cuba and
Page 552 - catalogued on a uniform plan, and with a uniform nomenclature, a thoroughly satisfactory account of the Geographical Distribution of Animals will not be possible. But more than this is wanted. Many of the most curious relations between animal forms and their habitats, are entirely unnoticed, owing to the productions of the same locality
Page 553 - harmony of nature, and to a fuller comprehension of the complex relations and mutual interdependence, which link together every animal and vegetable form, with the ever-changing earth which supports them, into one grand organic whole.
Page 9 - the South American continent, its long isolation from the rest of the land surface of the globe, and the persistence through countless ages of all the conditions requisite for the development and increase of varied forms of animal life.
Page 81 - probably formed part of Central America, and may have been united with Yucatan and Honduras in one extensive tropical land. But their separation from the continent ; took place at a remote period, and they have since been broken up into numerous islands, which have probably undergone much submergence in recent times. This has led to that poverty of the higher forms of life, combined
Page 5 - combined with isolation is the predominant feature of Neotropical zoology, and no other region can approach it in the number of its peculiar family and generic types.
Page 342 - islands and sand-banks, and can evidently pass over a few miles of sea with ease; but the Nicobar bird is a very different case, because none of the numerous intervening islands offer a single example of the family. Instead of being a well-marked
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| Title | THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. |
| Author | ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 veeb. 2006 |
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