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ÜBER DIE TIERGEOGRAPHISCHEN VERHÄLTNISSE DER CIRCUMANTARKTISCHEN SÜSSWASSERFAUNA
Author(s) -
BREHM V.
Publication year - 1936
Publication title -
biological reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.993
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1469-185X
pISSN - 1464-7931
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1936.tb00917.x
Subject(s) - fauna , geography , circumpolar star , ecology , endemism , habitat , zoology , ethnology , biology , history , oceanography , geology
Summary This review gives a survey of endemic organisms of the fresh‐water fauna of the circumpolar regions, which have geologically, but not ecologically, separate habitats. A number of examples has been selected which indicate that various animals occur in approximately the same geographical distribution areas as Irmscher established for his plants, although the insufficiency of our knowledge of large regions ( e.g. Western and Northern Australia, New Guinea, the west of the Argentine Republic) does not allow of the zoological maps being so complete as the botanical. The similarity of the animal and plant results, however, may perhaps support Wegener's theory.