Morphological differentiation and identification of Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus in northeastern North America

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 985-991

  Rich, Stephen M ^a,c   Kilpatrick, C William ^a   Shippee, Jodi L ^a   Crowell, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cranial morphology; discriminant function; identification; Peromyscus leucopus; Peromyscus maniculatus

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 0030475345     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382779     Document Type: Article

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