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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoögeog., a great zoölogical division of the earth's land surface, comprising the Eurasian, Indian, and Ethiopian regions: opposed to Notogæa.

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  • Huxley first called attention to certain noteworthy resemblances between the Neotropical and the Australian regions of Sclater, and held that a primary division of the world was into Arctogaea, comprising the great land masses of the Northern Hemisphere with a part of their extension across the equator, and

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • There is a strange general parallelism with the crayfishes! which also have their primary forms in Australia and New Zealand, avoid E.S. America and Africa, and become most differentiated in Arctogaea.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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