Testing limiting similarity in Quaternary terrestrial gastropods

Paleobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 378-388

  Huntley, John Warren ^a   Yanes, Yurena ^b   Kowalewski, Michał ^a   Castillo, Carolina ^c   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^d   Ibáñez, Miguel ^c   Alonso, María R ^c   Ortiz, José E ^e   de Torres, Trinidad ^e  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e Dpto de Automatic Ingenieria Electronica e Informatics Industrial DISAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GASTROPOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORPHOMETRY; QUATERNARY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; THEBA; THEBA ARINAGAE;

EID: 50249156940     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/07058.1     Document Type: Article

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