Abstract
IN the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (December, 1882) Prof. Angelo Heilprin has an article under the above title, in which he seeks to show that the Neoarctic and Palæarctic should form one region, for which he proposes the somewhat awkward name “Triarctic Region,” or the region of the three northern continents. The reasons for this proposal are, that in the chief vertebrate classes the proportion of peculiar forms is less in both the Neoarctic and Palæarctic than in any of the other regions; while, if these two regions are combined, they will, together, have an amount of peculiarity greater than some of the tropical regions.
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WALLACE, A. On the Value of the “Neoarctic” as One of the Primary Zoological Regions. Nature 27, 482–483 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027482b0
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