The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surfaceWallace, Alfred Russel
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The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2: With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Paleontology; Zoogeography
Satyridæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
7. (Heliconidæ) | | | -- | | Neotropical
8. Nymphalidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
9. Libytheidæ | | -- | -- | | Not in Australia
12. Erycinidæ | -- | -- | -- | | Neotropical
13. Lycænidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
14. Pieridæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
15. Papilionidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
16. Hesperidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
| | | | |
SPHINGIDEA. | | | | |
17. Zygænidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
18. Castniidæ | | | -- | | Neotropical, Australian
22. Ægeriidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Not in Australia
23. Sphingidæ | -- | -- | -- | -- | Cosmopolite
{145}TABLE II.
_LIST OF GENERA OF TERRESTRIAL MAMMALIA AND BIRDS INHABITING THE NEARCTIC
REGION._
EXPLANATION.
Names in _italics_ show genera peculiar to the region.
Names enclosed thus (...) indicate genera which barely enter the region,
and are not considered properly to belong to it.
Genera properly belonging to the region are numbered consecutively.
_MAMMALIA._
-------------------+-------+----------------------+----------------------
Order, Family, and | No. of| Range within | Range beyond
Genus. |Species| the Region. | the Region.
-------------------+-------+----------------------+----------------------
| | |
CHIROPTERA. | | |
PHYLLOSTOMIDÆ. | | |
1. Macrotus | 1 | California Mexico, |
| | Antilles |
| | |
VESPERTILIONIDÆ. | | |
2. Scotophilus | 5 | Universal, to Hudson's| Neotr., Orient.,
| | Bay | Austral.
3. Vespertilio | 6 | Universal, to Hudson's| Cosmopolite.
| | Bay |
4. Nycticejus | 1 | South and East | India, Tropical
| | | Africa, temperate
| | | S. America
5. Lasiurus | 3 | Temp. N. Amer. to | Tropical America
| | Nova Scotia |
6. _Synotus_ | 2 |S. E. and Central States
7. _Autrozous_ | 1 | W. Coast |
| | |
NOCTILIONIDÆ. | | |
8. Nyctinomus | 1 | Cal. and S. Central |Neotropical, Oriental,
| | Sub-region | S. Palæarctic
| | |
INSECTIVORA. | | |
TALPIDÆ.
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