Morphology and mitochondrial DNA sequences show that Plecotus alpinus Kiefer and Veith, 2002 and Plecotus microdontus Spitzenberger, 2002 are synonyms of Plecotus macrobullaris Kuzjakin, 1965

Natura Croatica

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 39-53

  Spitzenberger, Friederike ^a   Strelkov, Petr ^b   Haring, Elisabeth ^a  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alps; Asia Minor; Caucasus; Croatia; Mitochondrial control region; Morphological characters; Nomenclature; Northern Italy; Plecotus; Taxonomy; Vespertilionidae

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECOMORPHOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION GENETICS; TAXONOMY;

EUROPE;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PLECOTUS; PLECOTUS ALPINUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS; PLECOTUS MACROBULLARIS; PLECOTUS MICRODONTUS; PLECOTUS WARDI; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 0041654764     PISSN: 13300520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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