The topographic distribution of the penis and mammary glands in sengis (Macroscelidea) and its usefulness for taxonomic distinctions

Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-303

  Olbricht, Gea ^a   Stanley, William T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elephant shrews; Mammae; Nipples; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANTULUS ROZETI; MACROSCELIDEA; MACROSCELIDES; MAMMALIA; PETRODROMUS; PETRODROMUS TETRADACTYLUS; PETROMUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 79953177962     PISSN: 14351935     EISSN: 18600743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoos.200900007     Document Type: Article

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