Relicts from tertiary Australasia: Undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

Zootaxa

Volumn 3786, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 501-522

  Schodde, Richard ^a   Christidis, Les ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Family group taxa; New Guinea; Nomenclature; Songbirds; Taxonomy; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84906328250     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.1     Document Type: Article

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