Just another island dwarf? Phenotypic distinctiveness in the poorly known Soemmerring's Gazelle, Nanger soemmerringii (Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae), of Dahlak Kebir Island

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 603-620

  Chiozzi, Giorgio ^a   Bardelli, Giorgio ^a   Ricci, Marcella ^a   De Marchi, Giuseppe ^b   Cardini, Andrea ^c,d,e  

^a Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental Africa; Cranium; Eritrea; Geometric morphometrics; Insular dwarf; Island rule; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSPECIFIC; CRANIUM; EXTINCTION RISK; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

AFRICA; DAHLAK ARCHIPELAGO; ERITREA; NORTHERN RED SEA;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; CETARTIODACTYLA; CRANIA; GAZELLA;

EID: 84897588736     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12239     Document Type: Article

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