. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Jordan and ETermann.—Fishes of North America. 7(>5 um I, Tennessee. in Southern C'dncoriiiiig the distiibntiou and liuhitH uf thiH IihIi, Mr. GariiiHii gives tlic liillowing pertinent reniarkH: '• I'fil'/ilirhlhii^ nH/i/t';, Girard, tin'only |p1!ii(in«h in tlin I'dllcctinn (of MissUiith IIo|i|iin, frciiii . ill JiispiT County, in mmtlicrn M
. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Jordan and ETermann.—Fishes of North America. 7(>5 um I, Tennessee. in Southern C'dncoriiiiig the distiibntiou and liuhitH uf thiH IihIi, Mr. GariiiHii gives tlic liillowing pertinent reniarkH: '• I'fil'/ilirhlhii^ nH/i/t';, Girard, tin'only |p1!ii(in«h in tlin I'dllcctinn (of MissUiith IIo|i|iin, frciiii . ill JiispiT County, in mmtlicrn Missouri) iii roproscntoil liy u large niiiiilicr of oxam- |p|iu, llic Miujority of tlicm tnlton from llio ;, tlit? balunco from ttic ciivcs, witli flio oxrcptioii of a. ^iii(,'l from till' creek outHidu. (.'onipnrcd with spi'cimi'nH from Kcntncky ami Tenni-sptoc, njirpii HO exactly na toraJNi) tlio (|ui>Htion wlietlicr tliospccicH wan nut orli;inatod in one of tlio 'and tlii'iict) distril)iitud to tho others. Tlio opinion generally held is fliat the ravo s|mmhh of Indiana, Kcntni'liy, and TcnnosHoe originated in tlieir ri!Kpcrtivo localitlfs. It is no (|(i\ill true for Bonin of them. Tho idea i8 well fupported l)y tlio iniicctn and <TUsta(i'a, tlui p^pi'iii'i in one Kection lieing unlilie tlioso of tlie otherH. It may bo urged that tlio respect iii wliirh tlio (Islies differ from tliom is more apparent tlian real, sinco crustacDii and insects wiiv ilerivedfrom a niiniherof disti-'ct species, wliile in all proliahility the sanio species of lisli eriti'ieil llio caves in each district, and, lieing under the same inllneiiceK in eaif in the various cavos were derived from a single common ancestral siKicies. The douhts concern only the proh- ttliility of the existence of three or more lines of devolopment, in as many dilTorent lo<'alions, starting from tho same species and leading to sucli jiractical identity of rt'sult. Such identic
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