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. köideHarper and Brothers, 1876 |
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Page 54
... Costa Rica ; while Phymatolepis , Lamanctus , Corytheolus , Cachrix , Corytho- phanes and Chamæleopsis , all belonging to the Iguanidæ , are con- fined to various parts of the sub - region . In the same family we have also the Antillean ...
... Costa Rica ; while Phymatolepis , Lamanctus , Corytheolus , Cachrix , Corytho- phanes and Chamæleopsis , all belonging to the Iguanidæ , are con- fined to various parts of the sub - region . In the same family we have also the Antillean ...
Page 55
... Costa Rica , and as it also divides a very marked ornithological fauna we have every reason to believe that such a division must have existed during the latter portion of the tertiary epoch . We shall find some farther evidence of this ...
... Costa Rica , and as it also divides a very marked ornithological fauna we have every reason to believe that such a division must have existed during the latter portion of the tertiary epoch . We shall find some farther evidence of this ...
Page 56
... Costa Rica or Nicaragua . Such are Lycorea , Ituna , Thyridia , Callithomia , Oleria and Ceratina , -all characteristic South American groups of Danaida ; Prono- phila and Dynastor ( Satyridae ) ; Protogonius , Pycina , Prepona , Nica ...
... Costa Rica or Nicaragua . Such are Lycorea , Ituna , Thyridia , Callithomia , Oleria and Ceratina , -all characteristic South American groups of Danaida ; Prono- phila and Dynastor ( Satyridae ) ; Protogonius , Pycina , Prepona , Nica ...
Page 78
... Costa Rica were sunk beneath the Pacific . At this time the Lesser Antilles had no existence . The only large island of whose geology we have any detailed account , is Jamaica ; and taking this as a. 78 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
... Costa Rica were sunk beneath the Pacific . At this time the Lesser Antilles had no existence . The only large island of whose geology we have any detailed account , is Jamaica ; and taking this as a. 78 [ PART III . ZOOLOGICAL GEOGRAPHY .
Page 81
... Costa Rica and Veragua , which then may have had a greater extension , and have thus been able to develope their rich and peculiar fauna . The isthmus of Tehuantepec , at the south of Mexico , may , probably , also have been submerged ...
... Costa Rica and Veragua , which then may have had a greater extension , and have thus been able to develope their rich and peculiar fauna . The isthmus of Tehuantepec , at the south of Mexico , may , probably , also have been submerged ...
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