Computer-simulated shell size and shape variation in the caribbean land snail genus Cerion: A test of geometrical constraints

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 341-347

  Stone, Jonathon Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cerion; Form; Gastropod; Growth; Morphology; Morphospace

Indexed keywords

CERION SPP.;

EID: 0030021368     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb04497.x     Document Type: Article

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