Morphological variation of the five vole species of the genus Microtus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Arvicolinae) occurring in Greece

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 254-264

  Fraguedakis Tsolis, Stella E ^a   Chondropoulos, Basil P ^a   Stamatopoulos, Costas V ^a   Giokas, Sinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Microtus; Morphometrics; Rodentia; Terricola

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; SKULL;

BALKANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARVICOLINAE; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS FELTENI; MICROTUS GUENTHERI; MICROTUS ROSSIAEMERIDIONALIS; MICROTUS SUBTERRANEUS; MICROTUS THOMASI; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; TERRICOLA;

EID: 67650806258     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: 14636395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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