Modern analyses on an historical data set: skull morphology of Italian red squirrel populations

By

Amori, Giovanni
Aloise, Gaetano
Luiselli, Luca

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

368

Pages

79-89

Subjects

historical dataset , Italy , morphometrics , red squirrel

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.368.4691

 

Abstract

Recent molecular evidence suggests that Sciurus vulgaris populations from Calabria (southern Italy) are distinct from those occurring in northern and central Italy. Here, we re-analyzed using multivariate and univariate techniques an historical dataset provided by Cavazza (1913), who documented measurements for the now extinct squirrel population from Campania. Both univariate and multivariate analyses confirmed that the sample from Calabria was homogenous and relatively distinct compared to the rest of the squirrel samples.