10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUCUTUCU»
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals
Ctenomys frater 128 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642 1643
Ctenomys frater Rodentia - Octodontidae e Forest Tuco-tuco; Forest Tucutucu
Ctenomys fulvus Rodentia - Octodontidae e Tawny Tuco-tuco; Tawny Tucutucu ...
2
On the Organic Law of Change
... the surface ofthe ground the eye is rather larger but often rendered blind 86
useless. No doubt Lamarck would have said that the tucutucu is now passing into
the state ofthe Proteus 86 Asphalax. Darwin. p.[age] 52. Zr 15': gauyi a ("g-“.4,”
ML ...
Alfred Russel Wallace,
2013
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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to ...
tucutucu: a South American burrowing rodent, Ctenomys brasiliensis, resembling
a small squirrel (“What a Misfortune,” 133). In Chapter 14 of The Origin of Species
, Darwin discusses “complex and little-known laws of variation,” the way that ...
C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski,
2007
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ...
Ctenomys ten'o-mis),n. [Gr. kfeis, lrfenos, a comb, am ways, a mouse] A genus of
ratlike, rodent annuals in South America, with the habits of the mole. The Chilian
tucutucu is the best known species. See TUCUTUCU. Ctenophora. (ten-of'o-ra), ...
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale,
1885
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
He remarks on the occasional blindness of the burrowing tucutucu of the pampas
as supporting the view of Lamarck on the gradually acquired blindness of the
aspalax ; on the hard point of the tail of the trigonocephalus, which constantly ...
6
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The ...
In South America, a burrowing rodent, the tucutucu, or Ctenomys, is even more
subterranean in its habits than the mole; and I was assured by a Spaniard, who
had often caught them, that they were frequently blind. One which I kept alive was
...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or ...
Tucutucu, blind, 125. Tumbler pigeons, habits of, hereditary, 191. young of, 387.
Turkey-cock, brush of hair on breast, 85. Turkey, naked skin on head, 176. young,
wild, 192. Turnip and cabbage, analogous variations of, 144. Type, unity of, 184 ...
8
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The ...
... for instance, at the logger-headed duck, which has wings incapable of flight, in
nearly the same condition as in the domestic duck ; or when we look at the
burrowing tucutucu, which is occasionally blind, and then at certain moles, which
are ...
9
Victorian Prose: An Anthology
... in nearly the same condition as in the domestic duck; or when we look at the
burrowing tucutucu,6 which is occasionally blind, and then at certain moles,
which are habitually blind and have their eyes covered with skin; or when we
look at ...
Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher,
2013
10
Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-1836, under the ...
... tucutucu,"[' a little animal like a small rabbit; but the riders are so skilful, that
they generally save themselves, however awkwardly their horses may fall.
Pumas are an especial object of attack, not only for the risk attached to
encountering ...
Robert Fitzroy, Philip Parker King, Charles Darwin,
1839