Description of a new species of subfossil shrew tenrec (Afrosoricida: Tenrecidae: Microgale) from cave deposits in southeastern Madagascar

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-376

  Goodman, Steven M ^a,b   Vasey, Natalie ^c   Burney, David A ^d  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b Vahatra   (Madagascar)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSIT; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; OSTEOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SMALL MAMMAL; SUBFOSSIL; TAXONOMY;

ANDRAHOMANA CAVE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; TOLIARA;

MICROGALE; TENREC; TENRECIDAE;

EID: 38549136431     PISSN: 0006324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2007)120[367:DOANSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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