Morphometric analysis to discriminate between species: The case of the Megalobulimus leucostoma complex

Plasticity of conchological characters had led to erroneous descriptions and the accumulation of synonyms making difficult the discrimination among species. The land snail genus Megalobulimus is an example of this problem. Megalobulimus leucostoma (Sowerby, 1835) has three subspecies which are diffi...

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Main Authors: Victor Borda, Rina Ramirez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos 2014-10-01
Series:Revista Peruana de Biología
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Online Access:http://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/rpb/article/view/9814