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Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemen's Land.
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Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemen's Land.
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For example, in one restricted locality in Germany the shells of snails belonging to the genus _Paludina_ have been found in superimposed strata in the order of their geological sequence.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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The _Paludina_ and _Planorbis_ are the only kinds which are trustworthy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Of land-shells I collected sixteen kinds (and two marked varieties), of which, with the exception of one Helix found at Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemens Land.
Chapter XVII 1909
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Successive forms of Paludina, from the Tertiary deposits of
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Lastly, attention may here again be directed to the very instructive series of shells which has already been shown in a previous chapter, and which serves to illustrate the successive geological forms of _Paludina_ from the Tertiary beds of Slavonia, as depicted by Prof. Neumayr of
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Physa, the Paludina, the Limnaea, the Amber snail [all pond snails] and even the Pisidium [a bivalve], that little twin-valved casket.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemen's Land.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Calcutta in 1829, describes a species of _Paludina_ found in pools, which are periodically dried up in the hot season but reappear with the rains, p. 363.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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