Madagascar's lemurs: Cryptic diversity or taxonomic inflation?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-23

  Tattersall, Ian ^a   DeSalle, Rob ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diversity; Lemurs; Madagascar; Species; Systematics

Indexed keywords

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 33947536304     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20126     Document Type: Article

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