Illumination of cryptic species boundaries in long-tailed shrew tenrecs (Mammalia: Tenrecidae; Microgale), with new insights into geographic variation and distributional constraints

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-22

  Olson, Link E ^a,d   Goodman, Steven M ^a,b   Yoder, Anne D ^a,c  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b WWF Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Madagascar; Mitochondrial DNA; Morphometry; Phylogeography; Species limits

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

MAMMALIA; MICROGALE; SOREX DISPAR; TENRECIDAE;

EID: 4544325603     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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