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MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT MALE WEASEL "<i>MUSTELA SUBPALMATA</i>, HEMPRICH AND EHRENBERG, 1833" FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS IN EGYPT

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Animal Ecology and Toxicology
Animal Evolution and Development

Abstract

Most of the characteristics explaining the variability between populations or species were those directly connected with their morphological measurements. Many studies have dealt with morphological measurements among mammalian skulls, but few have dealt in detail with morphological measurements of cranial and dental characters. Forty one adult male specimens of the weasel, Mustela subpalmata, were collected from four different regions in Egypt; Alexandria, Giza, Beni Suif, and Sharquiya. Twenty-eight absolute morphometric characters (body mass + 4 external + 23 cranial and dental) and 23 selected morphological ratios were undertaken. All of these measurements showed no significant difference, except the upper molar M1 breadth/maxillary tooth row length (MuB/MxtL) ratio which showed a significant difference between these four studied regions. The complete external description and coloration of the Egyptian weasel pelage were analyzed in detail. The dental characters showed highly correlation with each other and were highly correlated with the cranial characters, which are also highly correlated with each other. Standing on 28 morphological and 23 selected ratio characters, the Egyptian weasels collected from Beni Suif region differ from those of Alexandria, Giza, and Sharquiya regions. The similarity index between the Egyptian weasels collected from Alexandria and Sharquiya regions is very high. The cluster of each of Alexandria and Sharquiya is somewhat close to Giza cluster.

DOI

10.21608/ejz.2023.190735.1093

Keywords

Cranial characters, dendrogram, Dental characters, morphological measurements, <i>Mustela subpalmata</i>

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Younes

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

myounes@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-5545-7233

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Mohallal

MiddleName

M. E.

Affiliation

Department of Animal and Poultry Physiology, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Email

emanmohallal@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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Volume

80

Article Issue

80

Related Issue

44599

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-01-30

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

50

Page End

67

Print ISSN

1110-6344

Online ISSN

2682-3160

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/article_293048.html

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684

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Egyptian Journal of Zoology

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/

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MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT MALE WEASEL "<i>MUSTELA SUBPALMATA</i>, HEMPRICH AND EHRENBERG, 1833" FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS IN EGYPT

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24 Dec 2024