The Geography of MammalsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 - 335 páginas |
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... remarkable for its peculiar and probably prehensile tail , is found only in the mountains of New Guinea , and has been placed in a new genus ( Chiuromys ) . Among the Rodents also there is one very obvious intruder from the west ; this ...
... remarkable for its peculiar and probably prehensile tail , is found only in the mountains of New Guinea , and has been placed in a new genus ( Chiuromys ) . Among the Rodents also there is one very obvious intruder from the west ; this ...
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... remarkable as being the only insular area on the globe , of any consider- able size , which are entirely destitute of mammal - life . All the other large islands of the world possess a Mammal- fauna of greater or less extent related to ...
... remarkable as being the only insular area on the globe , of any consider- able size , which are entirely destitute of mammal - life . All the other large islands of the world possess a Mammal- fauna of greater or less extent related to ...
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... remarkable Tuatera ( Sphenodon punc- tatus ) , which , though externally resembling a lizard , differs from all other lacertians in so many points of its skeleton and internal structure that it is usually considered to belong to a ...
... remarkable Tuatera ( Sphenodon punc- tatus ) , which , though externally resembling a lizard , differs from all other lacertians in so many points of its skeleton and internal structure that it is usually considered to belong to a ...
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... remarkable for what it does not possess ( lipotypes ) as for what it has . Everything points to the conclusion that during a long geological age , probably throughout the greater part of the Tertiary epoch , South America was entirely ...
... remarkable for what it does not possess ( lipotypes ) as for what it has . Everything points to the conclusion that during a long geological age , probably throughout the greater part of the Tertiary epoch , South America was entirely ...
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... remarkable for the absence of certain families as it is for the presence of peculiar forms . This is specially noticeable in the Ungulates . There is no existing re- presentative of the four great families of the Oxen , Rhinoceroses ...
... remarkable for the absence of certain families as it is for the presence of peculiar forms . This is specially noticeable in the Ungulates . There is no existing re- presentative of the four great families of the Oxen , Rhinoceroses ...
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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