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Hardly less remarkable is the absence of many widespread groups. With the
exception of one genus in the West Indian islands and a Sorea, which reaches
Guatemala and Costa Rica, the Insectivora are wholly wanting; as is also the ...
Hardly less remarkable is the absence of many widespread groups. With the
exception of one genus in the West Indian islands and a Sorea, which reaches
Guatemala and Costa Rica, the Insectivora are wholly wanting; as is also the ...
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It possesses no less than 23 families wholly confined within its limits, with 7
others which only extend into the Nearctic region. The names of the peculiar
families are: Caerebidae, or sugar-birds; Phytotomidae, or plant-cutters; Pipridae,
...
It possesses no less than 23 families wholly confined within its limits, with 7
others which only extend into the Nearctic region. The names of the peculiar
families are: Caerebidae, or sugar-birds; Phytotomidae, or plant-cutters; Pipridae,
...
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... quill; and seven of this series of families (which are considered to be less
perfectly developed than the great mass of Old World passeres) are exclusively
American, the three belonging to the Eastern hemisphere being of small extent.
... quill; and seven of this series of families (which are considered to be less
perfectly developed than the great mass of Old World passeres) are exclusively
American, the three belonging to the Eastern hemisphere being of small extent.
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Tail-less Batrachians on the other hand, are abundant ; there being 14 families
represented, of which 4,-Rhinophryndae, Hylaplesidae, Plectromantidae, and
Pipidae are peculiar. None of these families contain more than a single genus,
and ...
Tail-less Batrachians on the other hand, are abundant ; there being 14 families
represented, of which 4,-Rhinophryndae, Hylaplesidae, Plectromantidae, and
Pipidae are peculiar. None of these families contain more than a single genus,
and ...
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Summarizing the preceding facts, we find that the Neotropical region possesses
no less than 45 families and more than 900 genera of Vertebrata which are
altogether peculiar to it; while it has representatives of 168 families out of a total
of 330 ...
Summarizing the preceding facts, we find that the Neotropical region possesses
no less than 45 families and more than 900 genera of Vertebrata which are
altogether peculiar to it; while it has representatives of 168 families out of a total
of 330 ...
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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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