The Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Palaearctic: Geographical variation and taxonomic status

Biologia (Poland)

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1230-1244

  Benda, Petr ^a,b   Vallo, Peter ^c   Hulva, Pavel ^b   Horáček, Ivan ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

distribution; morphometrics; mtDNA; Rousettus; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867772445     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-012-0105-y     Document Type: Article

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