Noteworthy records of small mammals from Ghana with special emphasis on the Accra plains

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-227

  Decher, Jan ^b   Schlitter, Duane A ^a,c   Hutterer, Rainer ^d  

^a Section of Mammals

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Museum Alexander Koenig ^*  (United States)

^d ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

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