10.5061/DRYAD.71K17
Bärmann, Eva V.
Museum für Naturkunde
University of Cambridge
Wronski, Torsten
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Lerp, Hannes
Goethe University Frankfurt
Azanza, Beatriz
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
Börner, Saskia
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Erpenbeck, Dirk
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rössner, Gertrud E.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Wörheide, Gert
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Data from: A morphometric and genetic framework for the genus Gazella de
Blainville, 1816 (Ruminantia: Bovidae) with special focus on Arabian and
Levantine mountain gazelles
Dryad
dataset
2014
Gazella marica
linear measurements
Gazella cuvieri
Gazella leptoceros
Gazella dorcas
Gazella bennettii
Gazella arabica
Antilopinae
Gazella dorcas saudiya
Gazella subgutturosa
Antilopini
Skull
Gazella
Gazella gazella
Gazella spekei
Bovidae
Principal component analysis
2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
2014-10-07T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12066
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Gazella is one of the most species-rich genera within horned ruminants.
Despite overall similarity in body size and morphology, gazelles show
variability in coloration and horn morphology. Unfortunately, however,
species differentiation based on these characters, or on discrete skull
characters, is very difficult due to high intraspecific variability.
Furthermore, most species have fragmented and allopatric distributions, so
that species boundaries were hard to define in the past. Mitochondrial DNA
sequences have proven useful for investigating gazelle taxonomy in recent
years, but especially for old museum material, i.e. type specimens,
destructive sampling is often impossible. We provide a comprehensive
morphometric framework for the genus Gazella based on linear skull
measurements reconciled with results from molecular phylogenetic analysis
based on the largest dataset available so far. In particular for males,
the skull morphology shows interspecific differences concurrent with DNA
data and provides a reliable tool for species identification. Based on
morphometric data we synonymize G. karamii with G. marica, and confirm the
identification of the G. arabica and G. a. rueppelli type skulls from
analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences.
Gazella skull measurements, raw data (A morphometric and genetic framework
for Gazella)This file includes the linear measurements of Gazella skulls
from several museum specimens. Measurements were taken with callipers
(except L F+P2 and HL2, these were measured with a tape measure) and are
given in mm. Figure 2 in the original publication depicts the measurements
taken.Gazella measurements_raw data.xlsx