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 15
... Mammalia . - It is im- portant also to consider the kind and amount of difference between the various animal forms of this region and of the Old World . To begin with the Quadrumana , all the larger American monkeys ( Cebidae ) differ ...
... Mammalia . - It is im- portant also to consider the kind and amount of difference between the various animal forms of this region and of the Old World . To begin with the Quadrumana , all the larger American monkeys ( Cebidae ) differ ...
Page 15
... mammalia , would indicate a very remote origin ; and a long - continued isolation of South America from the rest of the world is required , in order to account for the preservation and development of so many distinct groups of ...
... mammalia , would indicate a very remote origin ; and a long - continued isolation of South America from the rest of the world is required , in order to account for the preservation and development of so many distinct groups of ...
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... Mammalia of this sub - region is towards the Ethiopian region , 2 genera of Echimyidae , Aulacodes and Petromys , occurring in South and South - east Africa . Plate IV . Characteristic Neotropical Mammalia . - Our illustra- tion ...
... Mammalia of this sub - region is towards the Ethiopian region , 2 genera of Echimyidae , Aulacodes and Petromys , occurring in South and South - east Africa . Plate IV . Characteristic Neotropical Mammalia . - Our illustra- tion ...
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... mammalia , reptiles , and insects , it is even more difficult to maintain such divisions , so that on the whole it seems better to treat the entire area as one sub - region , although recognizing the fact of its zoological and ...
... mammalia , reptiles , and insects , it is even more difficult to maintain such divisions , so that on the whole it seems better to treat the entire area as one sub - region , although recognizing the fact of its zoological and ...
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... Mammalia . This class is represented by a mouse belonging to the American genus Hesperomys , but slightly different from any found on the continent . A true rat ( Mus ) , slightly dif- fering from any European species , also occurs ...
... Mammalia . This class is represented by a mouse belonging to the American genus Hesperomys , but slightly different from any found on the continent . A true rat ( Mus ) , slightly dif- fering from any European species , also occurs ...
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