Subspecies of the thick-billed grasswren Amytornis modestus (Aves-maluridae)

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-38

  Black, Andrew ^a  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allopatric differentiation; New subspecies; Pleistocene isolation of populations; Polytypic species; Taxonomy; Thick billed Grasswren

Indexed keywords

AMYTORNIS; AVES; MALURIDAE;

EID: 79961119312     PISSN: 03721426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03721426.2011.10887148     Document Type: Article

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