The Role of Canine Morphology in the Evolutionary Divergence of Pigs and Peccaries
- 27 September 1972
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 53 (3) , 500-512
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1379040
Abstract
Functional differences in the heads of suids (pigs) and tayassuids (peccaries) are examined. Many such differences, including morphology of the craniKeywords
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