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SCLATER, Philip Lutley (1829 – 1913)

SCLATER, Philip Lutley (1829 – 1913)

1829 – 1913

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Elliot, D. G. "In memoriam". The Auk 1914:31(1) · Public domain

1858 CE

#9178

On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves.

Sclater defined and named six zoological regions: the Palaearctic, Aethiopian, Indian, Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical. With some name revision (Afrotropic for Aethiopian, and Indomalayan for Indian,) these zoo…