Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Volumn , Issue 322, 2009, Pages 1-177

  Voss, Robert S ^a   Jansa, Sharon A ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENOLESTIDAE; CALUROMYINAE; CALUROMYS; CALUROMYSIOPS; CHIRONECTES; CRANIA; CRYPTONANUS; DASYURIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHINAE; DIDELPHIS; GLIRONIA; GRACILINANUS; HYLADELPHYS; LESTODELPHYS; LUTREOLINA; MAMMALIA; MARMOSA; MARMOSOPS; METACHIRUS; METATHERIA; MICROBIOTHERIIDAE; MONODELPHIS; PERAMELIDAE; PHILANDER; THYLAMYS; TLACUATZIN;

EID: 69349094970     PISSN: 00030090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/322.1     Document Type: Review

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