Morphometric and morphological delineation of southern African species of Aethomys (Rodentia: Muridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 501-527

  Chimimba, Christian T ^a,b   Dippenaar, Nico J ^a,b   Robinson, Terence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African rock rats; Cranial morphology; Cytogenetics; Distribution; Nomenclature; Systematics

Indexed keywords

AETHOMYS; AETHOMYS CHRYSOPHILUS; AETHOMYS GRANTI; AETHOMYS INEPTUS; AETHOMYS NAMAQUENSIS; AETHOMYS NYIKAE; AETHOMYS SILINDENSIS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032806904     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0311     Document Type: Article

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