Discovery of a new duiker species (Bovidae: Cephalophinae) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2637, 2010, Pages 1-30

  Colyn, Marc ^a   Hulselmans, Jan ^b   Sonet, Gontran ^c   Oudé, Pascal ^d   De Winter, Jan ^e   Natta, Armand ^f   Nagy, Zoltán Tamás ^c   Verheyen, Erik ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^d Direction Projet d'Aménagement des Massifs Forestiers PAMF   (Benin)

^e Deutsche Forstservice GmbH   (Germany)

^f Université de Parakou   (Benin)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; Craniometry; Mitochondrial DNA; New duiker species; Nuclear DNA; Philantomba walteri sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; CEPHALOPHINAE; PHILANTOMBA; PHILANTOMBA MONTICOLA;

EID: 77957865008     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2637.1.1     Document Type: Article

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