Sexing Little Penguins Eudyptula minor from Cook Strait, New Zealand using discriminant function analysis

Emu

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-79

  Renner, Martin ^a   Davis, Lloyd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0033105371     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU99009C     Document Type: Article

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