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400 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [pakt iv.
North Australia; Gehtjra (5 sp.), Australia, New Guinea and
Fiji Islands ; Tarentola (7 sp.), North Africa, North America,
Madeira, Borneo, South Africa ; Phelsuma (6 sp.), Madagas-
car, Bourbon, and Andaman Islands; Pachydadylus (5 sp.),
South and West Africa, and Ascension Island ;
Sphcerodadylus
(5 sp.), the Neotropical region ; Naultinus, (6 sp.), New Zealand
Goniodactylus (5 sp.), Australia, Timor, South America and
Algiers ;
Heteronota (4 sp.), Australia, Fiji Islands, New Guinea
and Borneo ; Gubina (4 sp.), the Neotropical region ; Gijmno-
dactylus (16 sp.), all warm countries except Australia; Fhyllurus
(3 sp.), Australia ; Stenodadylus (4 sp.), North and West Africa,
and Eio Grande in North America.
The remaining genera mostly consist of single species, and
are pretty equally distributed over the various parts of the world
indicated in the preceding hst. Madagascar, the Seychelle Islands,
Chili, the Sandwich Islands, South Africa, Tahiti, the Philippine
Islands, New Caledonia, and Australia—all have peculiar genera,
while two new ones have recently been described from Persia.
Family 50.—IGUANID^. (56 Genera, 236 Species.)
Neotropioal
Sub-regions.
Nearctic
Sub-regions.
1.2.3.4-1.2.3 —
General Distribution.
Pal^arctic Ethiopian I Oriental Australian
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Sub-regions. Sub-regions. Sub-regions. Sub-regions.
The extensive family of the Iguanas is highly characteristic
of the Neotropfbal region, in every part of which the species
abound, even as far as nearly 50° South Latitude in Patagonia.
They also extend northwards into the warmer parts of the
Nearctic region, as far as California, British Columbia, and
Kansas on the west, and to 43° North Latitude in the Eastern
States. A distinct genus occurs in the Fiji Islands, and one
has been described as from Australia, and another from
Madagascar, but there is some doubt about these. The most
extensive genera are :
—
Anolivs (84 sp.), found in most parts of Tropical America and
;