Chapter 6. Phylogenetic Relationships of Harpyionycterine Megabats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
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Phylogenetic Relationships of Harpyionycterine Megabats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
After almost 70 years of stability following publication of Andersen’s (1912) monograph on the group, the systematics of megachiropteran bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) was thrown into flux with the advent of molecular phylogenetics in the 1980s—a state where it has remained ever since. One particularly problematic group has been the Austromalayan Harpyionycterinae, currently thought to include...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-0090
DOI: 10.1206/582-6.1