The Geography of MammalsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 - 335 páginas |
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... northern border , and Tropical Asia and its islands . 5. A South American Temperate Realm , embracing extra - tropical South America . 6. An Australian Realm , equivalent to our Australian Region . 7. A Lemurian Realm , containing ...
... northern border , and Tropical Asia and its islands . 5. A South American Temperate Realm , embracing extra - tropical South America . 6. An Australian Realm , equivalent to our Australian Region . 7. A Lemurian Realm , containing ...
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... Northern Queensland , the others being con- fined to New Guinea . They are remarkable for the fact that the proportionate lengths of the fore and hind limbs , unlike those of the true kangaroos , resemble those of ordinary mammals ...
... Northern Queensland , the others being con- fined to New Guinea . They are remarkable for the fact that the proportionate lengths of the fore and hind limbs , unlike those of the true kangaroos , resemble those of ordinary mammals ...
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... northern hemisphere during Tertiary times , but not found in Australia - a certain number of them show an Australian stamp . Some of them have even been relegated by Ameghino ( 1 ) , to whose researches our knowledge of the Santa ...
... northern hemisphere during Tertiary times , but not found in Australia - a certain number of them show an Australian stamp . Some of them have even been relegated by Ameghino ( 1 ) , to whose researches our knowledge of the Santa ...
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... Northern Queensland also , thus giving further proof of the close alliance of the Papuan and Austral mammal - faunas . Nearly all the Marsupials found in the Papuan Sub- region. FIG . 6. THE PAPUAN ECHIDNA . ( Proechidna bruijni . ) FIG ...
... Northern Queensland also , thus giving further proof of the close alliance of the Papuan and Austral mammal - faunas . Nearly all the Marsupials found in the Papuan Sub- region. FIG . 6. THE PAPUAN ECHIDNA . ( Proechidna bruijni . ) FIG ...
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... Northern Europe . All these facts indicate a great amount of individualism in the Maorian Sub - region . But on the whole they betray an affinity to the tropical parts of Australia and to the Papuan Sub - region rather than to the ...
... Northern Europe . All these facts indicate a great amount of individualism in the Maorian Sub - region . But on the whole they betray an affinity to the tropical parts of Australia and to the Papuan Sub - region rather than to the ...
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Africa animals Ant-eater Antarctic Antelopes Arctic Armadillo Asia Atlantic Australian Region Bats beds belong birds Borneo boundary Bovida Cape Carnivora Celebes Central Chimpanzee Chiroptera closely allied coast confined considerable number contains Deer distinct districts Eastern Edentates endemic entirely Ethiopian Region Europe existing extends extinct fauna forests forms genera genus Geographical Distribution greater number inhabitants Insectivores islands known Lemurs Macacus Madagascar mainland Malagasy Malagasy Sub-region Malay Peninsula Malayan MAMMAL-FAUNA mammalian mammals Marsupials Monkeys Monotremes mountains naturalists Nearctic Region nearly Neotropical Region North northern number of genera number of species occur Ocean Old World Opossum Order Oriental Region Otaria Pacific Palearctic Region Papuan Sub-region Patagonia peculiar genera Phalanger Pinnipeds Pliocene present range recent remarkable represented restricted Rodents Sea-regions SECTION Sirenian South America Southern Sub-family Sumatra SUMMARY AND DEDUCTIONS Tapirs three genera total number tropical Ungulata Ungulates Viverrida Wallace's Line West African Western whole widely distributed Zealand