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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. "
THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. - Page 5
by ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE - 1876
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A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere

William Berryman Scott - 1913 - 732 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...
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A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere

William Berryman Scott - 1937 - 816 lehte
...of Mexico, extending into southeastern Texas, and the coastal strip of southern Florida. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types" (Wallace). Most of the Neotropical fauna is of indigenous origin and derived from a long series of...
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A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere

William Berryman Scott - 1937 - 818 lehte
...of Mexico, extending into southeastern Texas, and the coastal strip of southern Florida. "Richness combined with isolation is the predominant feature...the number of its peculiar family and generic types" (Wallace). Most of the Neotropical fauna is of indigenous origin and derived from a long series of...
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Proceedings of the United States National Museum

United States National Museum - 1892 - 844 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,...
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Evolution and Environment in Tropical America

Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, Anthony G. Coates - 1996 - 448 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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