Spot the penguin: Can reliable taxonomic identifications be made using isolated foot bones?

Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 225-238

  Walsh, Stig A ^a   MacLeod, Norman ^a   O’Neill, Mark A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420008074     Document Type: Chapter

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