Landmark superimposition for taxonomic identification

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-274

  Becerra, Jose María ^a   Valdecasas, Antonio G ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Procrustes distances; Water mites

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ACARI; HYDRACARINA; PROCRUSTES; TORRENTICOLA;

EID: 1242277830     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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