The arrangement and structure of feather melanin granules as a taxonomic character in African starlings (Sturnidae)

Title: The arrangement and structure of feather melanin granules as a taxonomic character in African starlings (Sturnidae)
Creator: Craig, Adrian J F K, Hartley, Alex H
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 1985
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465507
Identifier: vital:76615
Identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4086659
Description: Electron micrographs of transverse sections of starling feathers, show-ing different structural types:(a) type A, Creatophora cinerea;(b) type B, Poeoptera kenricki;(c) type B, Lamprotornis purpureiceps;(d) type C, Spreo fischeri. nus Hylopsar, and are grouped as a superspecies by Hall and Moreau (1970). Here similar colors apparently are produced by a very different underlying structure. While these species share type B with the genus Poeoptera, there are differences in the details of the melanin granule arrangement, as well as other morphological differences.
Format: 3 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: The Auk, Craig, A.J. and Hartley, A.H., 1985. The arrangement and structure of feather melanin granules as a taxonomic character in African starlings (Sturnidae). The Auk, pp.629-632, The Auk volume 1985 number 629 632 1985 1938-4254
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