Karyological study of the house bat Pipistrellus abramus (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Taiwan with comments on its taxonomic status

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 507-510

  Lin, Liang Kong ^a   Motokawa, Masaharu ^b   Harada, Masashi ^c  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

C band; G band; Karyotype; Pipistrellus abramus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS ABRAMUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042164859     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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