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, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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Page 44
... comparatively little of the way in which one animal or plant is bound up with others , but we know enough to assure us that groups the most apparently disconnected are often dependent on each other . We know , for example , that the ...
... comparatively little of the way in which one animal or plant is bound up with others , but we know enough to assure us that groups the most apparently disconnected are often dependent on each other . We know , for example , that the ...
Page 190
... comparatively little use for purposes of geographical distribution , even were it advisable to enter into the subject in a work which will , perhaps , be too much overburdened with details only of interest to specialists . Land Shells ...
... comparatively little use for purposes of geographical distribution , even were it advisable to enter into the subject in a work which will , perhaps , be too much overburdened with details only of interest to specialists . Land Shells ...
Page 213
... comparatively recent , and their introduction may be supposed to be now going on . The peculiar influence of Madeira in aborting the wings should . therefore , have acted on the ancient and changed forms much more powerfully than on the ...
... comparatively recent , and their introduction may be supposed to be now going on . The peculiar influence of Madeira in aborting the wings should . therefore , have acted on the ancient and changed forms much more powerfully than on the ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya beetles belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic region Papuan peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions