Investigating South American biogeographic history using patterns of skull shape variation on Cerdocyon thous (Mammalia: Canidae)
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0024-4066,1095-8312
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01274.x