Bats from the wet: Two new species of tube-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Meghalaya, India

Revue Suisse de Zoologie

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-135

  Ruedi, Manuel ^a   Biswas, Jayant ^b   Csorba, Gábor ^c  

^a MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^b National Cave Research and Protection Organization   (India)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Mitochondrial DNA; Murina; Nuclear DNA; Phylogenetics; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; MURINA; PLUVIALIS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 84860471749     PISSN: 0035418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.150145     Document Type: Review

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