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, 2. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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... forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise neotropical zoology to a degree nowhere else to be met with . Together with this variety and richness , there is a remarkable uniformity of animal life ...
... forms with a somewhat limited range of family and ordinal types , which characterise neotropical zoology to a degree nowhere else to be met with . Together with this variety and richness , there is a remarkable uniformity of animal life ...
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... forms predominate as far as 28 ° N. latitude ; while on the cordilleras , temperate forms prevail down to 20 ° , and are found even much farther within the tropics . - Mammalia . Very few peculiar forms of Mammalia are re- stricted to ...
... forms predominate as far as 28 ° N. latitude ; while on the cordilleras , temperate forms prevail down to 20 ° , and are found even much farther within the tropics . - Mammalia . Very few peculiar forms of Mammalia are re- stricted to ...
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... forms not found elsewhere , and thus forms a transition from the Neotropical region . I. The Western or Californian Sub - region . This small district possesses a fruitful soil and a highly favourable climate , and is , in proportion to ...
... forms not found elsewhere , and thus forms a transition from the Neotropical region . I. The Western or Californian Sub - region . This small district possesses a fruitful soil and a highly favourable climate , and is , in proportion to ...
Contents
General Zoological Features of the Neotropical Region p 5Distinctive Charac | 15 |
Past History of the Neotropical Region p 80Table I Families of Animals | 91 |
THE NEARCTIC REGION | 113 |
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