Contribution to the systematics and zoogeography of the East-African Acomys spinosissimus Peters 1852 species complex and the description of two new species (Rodentia: Muridae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3059, 2011, Pages 1-35

  Verheyen, Walter ^a   Hulselmans, Jan ^a   Wendelen, Wim ^b   Leirs, Herwig ^a   Corti, Marco ^c   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,d   Verheyen, Erik ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acomys spinosissimus; Craniometry; Cytochrome b; Enzymes; Morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACOMYS; ACOMYS SPINOSISSIMUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 80054684536     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3059.1.1     Document Type: Article

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