Head shape variation in eastern and western Montpellier snakes

Acta Herpetologica

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 167-177

  Mangiacotti, Marco ^a   Limongi, Laura ^a   Sannolo, Marco ^a   Sacchi, Roberto ^b   Zuffi, Marco A L ^c   Scali, Stefano ^a  

^a Museo Civico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Malpolon; Mediterranean; Nonparametric MANOVA; Phylogeography; Psammophiinae; Taxonomy; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919974130     PISSN: 18279635     EISSN: 18279643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-14194     Document Type: Article

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