A Morphometric Analysis of Geographic Variation Within Sorex Monticolus (Insectivora, Soricidae) (Classic Reprint)

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Straight - line polygons were drawn around the published marginal records (hall, 1981; Hennings and Hoffmann, 1977) for each subspecies to form the 14 a priori' groups (fig. Specimens from localities within a polygon were considered to belong to the taxon for which marginal records were used to produce that polygon. Specimens from localities outside of polygons (n z 107) were not included in the initial analyses, but were as signed to their appropriate groups by use of diagno sis files created with two or three-group discrimi nant analyses between geographically adjacent a priori groups. Because Carraway 1990) consid ered S. Bairdi a distinct species, and my results corroborated this, S. Bairdi (n 110) was used as an outgroup.

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