New investigations on the taxonomy of the zebras genus Equus, subgenus Hippotigris

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 182-196

  Groves, C P ^a   Bell, Catherine H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equus; Quagga; Taxonomy; Zebra

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; UNGULATE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS BURCHELLII; EQUUS GREVYI; EQUUS HARTMANNAE; EQUUS QUAGGA; EQUUS ZEBRA; UNGULATA;

EID: 4544270457     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1616-5047-00133     Document Type: Article

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