Fauna americana : being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America / by Richard Harlan.

  • Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Fauna americana : being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America / by Richard Harlan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    several arc entirely new, and not before described: eleven species are fossil, and no longer exist in a living state, in this, or any other country; many were imperfectly no- ticed, or erroneously described; others merely indicated. In several instances species, and in three or four cases, ge- nera, have been confounded. With regard to the distribution of the North American mammalia, they are thus divided—119 are Quadrupeds, 28 Cetacea. To the order Primates belong, 1 species. Carnivora, - 60 Glires, - ... 37 Edentata, ... 6 Pachydermata, 2 Ruminantia, - 13 Cetacea, 28 147 Twenty-five species are common to both Continents, without including the cetaceous animals, viz :— Of the Mole, 1 species Shrew, ----- 2 Bear, - 1 others to Mexico and the United States, a few species only being pecu- liar to Mexico, viz:—Cebus apella; phyllostoma spectrum; potos caudi- volvula; canis mexicanus; felis mitis; felis mexicanus; didclphis cancri- vora; didelphis cayopollin. (Ilernand.) If* we add these to the number described in the following- pages, it will afford a sum total of 155 species as inhabiting- North America, a computation which no doubt falls far short of the actual number.