CRANIOMETRIC VARIATION AND SUBSPECIFIC DIFFERENTIATION IN THRICHOMYS APEREOIDES IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL (RODENTIA, ECHIMYIDAE)

dc.contributor.authorBandouk, A. C. [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorDosreis, S. F.
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T15:20:11Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T15:20:11Z
dc.date.issued1995-06-01
dc.description.abstractThrichomys apereoides is an echimyid rodent which ranges in distribution from northeastern and central Brazil into Paraguay. Five subspecies are recognized, although each form is not well characterized and diagnosis is based primarily in pelage color variation. In this study we employed procedures from multivariate statistics to assess the systematic status of subspecies described from northeastern Brazil. The results of the craniometric analysis cannot be reconciled with the subspecies currently recognized for northeastern Brazil. Populations assigned to T. a. laurentius and T. a. inermis form a continuum of variation in cranial size, although they differ in cranial shape from a population from the locality of Bodoco in the state of Pernambuco. The implications of these findings for the systematics of T. apereoides are discussed.en
dc.description.affiliationUNIV ESTADUAL CAMPINAS,IB,DEPT PARASITOL,BR-13083970 CAMPINAS,SP,BRAZIL
dc.description.affiliationUnespUNIV ESTADUAL PAULISTA,PROGRAMA POSGRAD ZOOL, BR-13500 RIO CLARO, SP,BRAZIL
dc.format.extent176-185
dc.identifier.citationZeitschrift Fur Saugetierkunde-international Journal of Mammalian Biology. Jena: Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, v. 60, n. 3, p. 176-185, 1995.
dc.identifier.issn0044-3468
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/31530
dc.identifier.wosWOS:A1995RH77800007
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherGustav Fischer Verlag Jena
dc.relation.ispartofZeitschrift Fur Saugetierkunde-international Journal of Mammalian Biology
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dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.titleCRANIOMETRIC VARIATION AND SUBSPECIFIC DIFFERENTIATION IN THRICHOMYS APEREOIDES IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL (RODENTIA, ECHIMYIDAE)en
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-policies/article-posting-policy
dcterms.rightsHolderGustav Fischer Verlag Jena
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claropt

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