Morphological comparison of Ryukyu mouse Mus caroli (Rodentia: Muridae) populations from Okinawajima and Taiwan

Zoological Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 258-267

  Motokawa, Masaharu ^a   Lin, Liang Kong ^b   Motokawa, Junko ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allometry; M. formosanus; Morphometric analyses; Mus caroli; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BULLA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS CAROLI; RODENTIA; RYUKYU;

EID: 0041704799     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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