Morphological differentiation among Subsaharan and North African populations of the Lemniscomys barbarus complex (Rodentia: Muridae)

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 640-680

  Carleton, Michael D ^a   Van Straeten, Erik Der ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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