Morphometric analysis of skull shape reveals unprecedented diversity of African Canidae

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: de Andrade Machado, Fabio, Teta, Pablo Vicente
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Alliance Communications Group Division Allen Press
• Subjects: CANIS ANTHUS; CANIS AUREUS; CANIS LUPUS; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentino; Argentina; Pablo; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/135535

We conducted a geometric morphometric analysis to investigate the morphological variation of the golden wolf, Canis lupaster, and to clarify the morphological and taxonomic affinities of different taxa of the genera Canis and Lupulella. We suggest that the variation observed within the complex of Ca...