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. köideMacmillan and Company, 1876 - 503 pages |
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Page 54
... Mexico and Guatemala ; and another genus , Claudius , has been lately described from Mexico . Amphibia . These are chiefly Batrachians ; Rhinophryna ( forming a peculiar family ) being confined to Mexico ; Triprion , a genus of Hylidæ ...
... Mexico and Guatemala ; and another genus , Claudius , has been lately described from Mexico . Amphibia . These are chiefly Batrachians ; Rhinophryna ( forming a peculiar family ) being confined to Mexico ; Triprion , a genus of Hylidæ ...
Page 57
... Mexico or Guatemala , while 12 more stop short , as far as yet known , at Nicaragua . Lamiidæ have a very similar distribution ; 13 genera are peculiar , the most important being Monilema , Hamatoderus , and Carneades , while Phaa and ...
... Mexico or Guatemala , while 12 more stop short , as far as yet known , at Nicaragua . Lamiidæ have a very similar distribution ; 13 genera are peculiar , the most important being Monilema , Hamatoderus , and Carneades , while Phaa and ...
Page 58
... Guatemala and Mexico would invite rapid immigration from the south ; while some northern forms would extend their range into and beyond the newly elevated territory . The Mexican sub - region has therefore a composite character , and we ...
... Guatemala and Mexico would invite rapid immigration from the south ; while some northern forms would extend their range into and beyond the newly elevated territory . The Mexican sub - region has therefore a composite character , and we ...
Page 81
... Mexico , may , probably , also have been submerged ; thus isolating Guatemala and Yucatan , and leading to the specialization of some of the peculiar forms that now characterise those countries and Mexico . The West Indian Islands have ...
... Mexico , may , probably , also have been submerged ; thus isolating Guatemala and Yucatan , and leading to the specialization of some of the peculiar forms that now characterise those countries and Mexico . The West Indian Islands have ...
Page 91
... Guatemala to Paraguay 6. Pithecia 7 Equatorial Forests 7. Brachiurus 5 Equatorial Forests 8. Nyctipithecus 5 ... Mexico 20. Brachyphylla Antilles 21. Glossophaga 8 Tropical America 22. Phyllonycteris 2 Cuba 23. Artibeus 4 S. America & ...
... Guatemala to Paraguay 6. Pithecia 7 Equatorial Forests 7. Brachiurus 5 Equatorial Forests 8. Nyctipithecus 5 ... Mexico 20. Brachyphylla Antilles 21. Glossophaga 8 Tropical America 22. Phyllonycteris 2 Cuba 23. Artibeus 4 S. America & ...
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