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 115
... river system of the Mississippi , to which the Palearctic region has nothing com- parable . But although somewhat deficient in the total number of its families , this region possesses its full proportion of peculiar and characteristic ...
... river system of the Mississippi , to which the Palearctic region has nothing com- parable . But although somewhat deficient in the total number of its families , this region possesses its full proportion of peculiar and characteristic ...
Page 120
... river Gila ; and Acrochilus , in the Columbia river - all belonging to the Cyprinidae . Scaphi- rhynchus , found only in the Mississippi and its tributaries , belongs to the sturgeon family ( Accipenserida ) . Summary of Nearctic ...
... river Gila ; and Acrochilus , in the Columbia river - all belonging to the Cyprinidae . Scaphi- rhynchus , found only in the Mississippi and its tributaries , belongs to the sturgeon family ( Accipenserida ) . Summary of Nearctic ...
Page 126
... rivers . To the north the limits are undefined ; but as a considerable number of species and genera occur in the United States but not in Canada , it will be convenient to draw the line somewhere near the boundary of the two countries ...
... rivers . To the north the limits are undefined ; but as a considerable number of species and genera occur in the United States but not in Canada , it will be convenient to draw the line somewhere near the boundary of the two countries ...
Page 128
... rivers . Amphibia . - California possesses two genera of Salamandridæ , Aneides and Heredia , which do not extend to the other sub- regions . Fresh - water Fish . - There are two or three peculiar genera of Cyprinidæ , but the sub ...
... rivers . Amphibia . - California possesses two genera of Salamandridæ , Aneides and Heredia , which do not extend to the other sub- regions . Fresh - water Fish . - There are two or three peculiar genera of Cyprinidæ , but the sub ...
Page 131
... River , and has hardly any relation to that of Upper California . It possesses a considerable number ( about twenty ) of ... rivers and lakes of the Great Central Basin , and the Colorado River , contain many peculiar forms of Cyprinidæ ...
... River , and has hardly any relation to that of Upper California . It possesses a considerable number ( about twenty ) of ... rivers and lakes of the Great Central Basin , and the Colorado River , contain many peculiar forms of Cyprinidæ ...
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