Biologia Centrali-Americana: Land and Freshwater Mollusca (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Biologia Centrali-Americana: Land and Freshwater Mollusca

On the Plates, of which twentv-eight coloured and sixteen uncoloured have been required, 'i have endeavoured to figure not only the new species, but also those previously described that had not been satisfactorily illustrated before. The present Volume, with the above-mentioned works of Fischer and Crosse and Strebel, both indispensable to the student of the Mexican and central-american Mollusca, will therefore include a figure of nearly all the known species of these regions. Moreover, I have in many cases given figures of the young state, or of individual variations, chosen from a large number of specimens obtained at the same locality, to show the various forms of the same species.

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Excerpt from Biologia Centrali-Americana: Land and Freshwater Mollusca

The systematic arrangement of the Mexican and central-american forms having been dealt with satisfactorily by the above-mentioned authors, my chief object has been to collate all the published papers, as well as various unpublished ms. Notes, on the subject, in order to obtain a sound foundation for remarks on zoo-geographical distribution. For this purpose the known localities for each species have been grouped or arranged under different headings, chosen with regard to the political frontiers and the eastern and western slopes of the central portion of each country belonging to the region under investigation; the scheme adopted, it is true, has been slightly varied, or rather corrected, since the publication of the first portion of the work, but it willvi introduction.

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