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SO far as concerns their distribution, animals may be divided into two classes, the tenants of the land and fresh waters, and the inhabitants of the ocean. In the one case their boundaries depend upon the form and extent of continents past and present; on the other, upon the corresponding limits of the ocean.
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S., P. Oceanic Vertebrates . Nature 3, 268–269 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003268c0
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