 | William Berryman Scott - 1913 - 693 lehte
...Flo. 89. — Fox-like Wolf (Ctrdocuon gracilia). — By permission of WS Berridge, London. 'Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types " (Wallace). Just as North America has received many immigrants from the Old World, so it has sent... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1892 - 16 lehte
...of South American tishe-s belong to the Physostomous Téleoste. In the words of Wallace: "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...number of its peculiar family and generic types." The families peculiar to South America are: (l) Diplomystidœ, (2) Aspredinidœ, (3) Hypophthalmidœ,... | |
 | Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, Anthony G. Coates - 1996 - 425 lehte
...appreciated the importance of the previous isolation of the South American mammal and bird faunas. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types" (Wallace 1876, 2:5). Tertiary records of American mammals, as one can see from Wallace's remarks, still... | |
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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. 