Intraspecific variability and phylogenetic relationships of the Pleistocene shrewSorex runtonensis (Soricidae) |
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| Authors: | Vera A Osipova Barbara Rzebik-Kowalska Mikhail V Zaitsev |
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| Institution: | 1. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb., 1, 199034, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, S?awkowska 17, 31-016, Kraków, Poland
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| Abstract: | Intraspecific variability of the Pleistocene speciesSorex runtonensis Hinton, 1911 from different Polish and Russian (Caucasus Mts.) localities and its relationships to Recent red-toothed shrews
of similar body size and mandibular morphology,S. caecutiens Laxmann, 1788 andS. tundrensis Merriam, 1990, are explained on the grounds of multivariate statistics. The remains ofS. runtonensis from different localities form a single group and differ fromS. caecutiens. They resembleS. tundrensis by the first canonical root related to a mandibular size and proportions. This may indicate thatS. runtonensis andS. tundrensis are closely related but separated components of the species complextundrensis. |
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