Patterns and trends in the discovery of new Neotropical mammals

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 145-151

  Patterson, B D ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Neotropics; New species; Species descriptions; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0033711415     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2000.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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