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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... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of Tropical America abound in fish of many strange forms and peculiar types . Three fami- lies , and three sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120 ...
... Fresh - water fishes . - The great rivers of Tropical America abound in fish of many strange forms and peculiar types . Three fami- lies , and three sub - family groups are peculiar , while the number of peculiar genera is about 120 ...
Page 42
... Fresh - water Fishes . These present some peculiar forms , and some very interesting phenomena of distribution . The ... fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ...
... Fresh - water Fishes . These present some peculiar forms , and some very interesting phenomena of distribution . The ... fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ...
Page 42
... Fresh - water Fishes . - These present some peculiar forms , and some very interesting phenomena of distribution ... fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ...
... Fresh - water Fishes . - These present some peculiar forms , and some very interesting phenomena of distribution ... fresh waters of South Temperate America , and one far away in Java . Nematogenys ( 1 sp . ) is peculiar to Chili ...
Page 48
... fresh - water fishes , the Aus- tralian affinity , as shown by insects , is of two kinds , near and remote . We have a few genera common to the two countries ; but more commonly the genera are very distinct , and the affinity is shown ...
... fresh - water fishes , the Aus- tralian affinity , as shown by insects , is of two kinds , near and remote . We have a few genera common to the two countries ; but more commonly the genera are very distinct , and the affinity is shown ...
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... Fresh - water fish . Since the British Museum catalogue was published , a valuable paper by Dr. Günther , in the Transactions of the Zoological Society for 1868 , furnishes much additional information on the fishes of Central America ...
... Fresh - water fish . Since the British Museum catalogue was published , a valuable paper by Dr. Günther , in the Transactions of the Zoological Society for 1868 , furnishes much additional information on the fishes of Central America ...
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