The endemic bovids from Sardinia and the Balearic Islands: State of the art

Geobios

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 127-142

  Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,b   Rozzi, Roberto ^a   Bover, Pere ^c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovidae; Islands; Late Neogene; Mediterranean; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HERBIVORE; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOGENE; PHYLOGENETICS; QUATERNARY; RUMINANT; TAXONOMY;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; ITALY; JAPAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARDINIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPAIN;

BOVIDAE; BOVINI; MAMMALIA; MYOTRAGUS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 84875551780     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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