Using hand proportions to test taxonomic boundaries within the Tupaia glis species complex (Scandentia, Tupaiidae)
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Department of Anthropology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208277, New Haven, CT 06520, USA (EJS) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208106, New Haven, CT 06520, USA (EJS, ATR) Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT 06520, USA (EJS, ATR) United States Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA (NW) University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA (LEO)
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