Mikhail Tiunov

Group leader
Laboratory of Theriology
Leading Researcher
Doctor of biological sciences
Professor

Selected publications

2025 - A new species of Myotis from China with notes on the siligorensis species group (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae).

Tiunov M., Liu S., Feng J., Soisook P., Jiang T.

ZooKeys    Year: 2025 Volume: 1258 Pages: 333–356

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1258.145290

2025 - Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data

Danukalova G., Tiunov M., Osipova E., Kurmanov R., Omelko V., Panteleev A., Gladchenkov A.

Palaeoworld    Year: 2025 Volume: 34 Number: 5 Article ID: 200943

DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2025.200943

2024 - The Use of the Malacofaunistic Method for Reconstructing the Palaeoecological Conditions of the Late Late Pleistocene to Holocene Based on Material from the Tetyukhinskaya Cave Site, Southern Far East, Russia

Osipova E.M., Danukalova G.A., Tiunov M.P.

Biology Bulletin    Year: 2024 Volume: 51 Number: 8 Pages: 2638–2659

DOI: 10.1134/S106235902470122X

2024 - Chiropterophagy by the Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica): the first record in the Russian Far East

Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

International Journal of Speleology    Year: 2024 Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Article ID: ijs2525

DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.53.3.2525

2024 - LATE HOLOCENE SQUAMATED REPTILES FROM THE MEDVEZHIY KLYK CAVE ON THE LOZOVY RIDGE (SOUTHERN SIKHOTE-ALIN, PRIMORSKY KRAY)

Ratnikov V.YU., Maslova I.V., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Amurian zoological journal    Year: 2024 Volume: 16 Number: 3 Pages: 763–781

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-3-763-781

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2024 - Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects

Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments    Year: 2024 Volume: 104 Number: 2 Pages: 419-434

DOI: 10.1007/s12549-024-00601-w

2024 - THE USE OF GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRY AND TRADITIONAL METHODS TO ANALYZE INTRASPECIFIC VARIABILITY OF THE FIRST LOWER MOLAR (M1) OF ALEXANDROMYS FORTIS (ARVICOLINAE) IN ISLAND AND CONTINENTAL POPULATIONS OF PRIMORYE, RUSSIA

Vinokurova M.A., Tiunov M.P., Golenishchev F.N.

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences    Year: 2024 Volume: 328 Number: 1 Pages: 20–39

DOI: 10.31610/trudyzin/2024.328.1.20

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2024 - Late Pleistocene and Holocene malacological and theriological faunas from the Tetyukhinskaya Cave (South Far East, Russia) and their palaeoecological implication

Osipova E., Danukalova G., Tiunov M.

Palaeoworld    Year: 2024 Volume: 33 Number: 1 Pages: 241-256

DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2022.12.007

2023 - New finds of the fossil genus representatives of Tonomochota Tiunov et Gusev, 2021 (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) in Korydornaya Cave (Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Far East of Russia)

Gusev A.E., Tiunov M.P.

Амурский зоологический журнал    Year: 2023 Volume: 15 Number: 4 Pages: 894–906

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-4-894-906

2023 - A Species of Bat, Eptesicus pachyomus (Tomes 1857) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), New to the Fauna of Russia

Tiunov M.P., Proskuryakova A.A., Baturina A.K., Perelman P.L., Graphodatsky A.S.

Biology Bulletin    Year: 2023 Volume: 50 Number: 8 Pages: 324–328

DOI: 10.1134/S1062359023080307

2023 - Ancient DNA reveals genetic admixture in China during tiger evolution

Sun  X., Liu  Y-C., Tiunov  M.P., Gimranov D.O., Zhuang Y., Han Y., Driscoll C.A., Pang Y., Li C., Pan Y., Velasco M.S., Gopalakrishnan S., Yang R-Z., Li B-G., Jin K., Xu X., Uphyrkina O., Huang Y., Wu X-H., Gilbert  M.T.P., O’Brien S.J., Yamaguchi N., Luo S-J.

Nature Ecology & Evolution    Year: 2023 Volume: 7 Pages: 1914–1929

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02185-8

2023 - LATE HOLOCENE AMPHIBIANS FROM THE MEDVEZHIY KLYK CAVE OF THE LOZOVY RIDGE (SOUTHERN SIKHOTE-ALIN, PRIMORSKY KRAI)

Ratnikov V.YU., Maslova I.V., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Amurian zoological journal    Year: 2023 Volume: 15 Number: 2 Pages: 420-434

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-2-420-434

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2023 - NEW CAVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF PRIMORYE (FIRST RESULTS OF RESEARCH)

Klyuev N.A., Sleptsov I.YU., Gladchenkov A.A., Shapovalov E.YU., Belova I.V., Tiunov M.P., Gusev A.E., Vorobyev A.M., Pochivalova N.M., Panin P.S., Kolganova A.M.

Труды института истории, археологии и этнографии ДВО РАН    Year: 2023 Volume: 39 Pages: 50-65

DOI: 10.24412/2658-5960-2023-39-50-65

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2023 - Middle Holocene Siberian genomes reveal highly connected gene pools throughout North Asia

Wang K., Yu H., Radzevic R., Kiryushin Y.F., Tishkin A.A., Frolov Y.V., Stepanova N.F., Kiryushin K.Yu., Kungurov A.L., Shnaider S.V., Tur S.S., Tiunov M.P., Zubova A.V., Pevzner M., Karimov T., Buzhilova A., Slon V., Jeong C., Krause J., Posth C.

Current Biology    Year: 2023 Volume: 33 Issue: 3 Pages: 423-433

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.062

2022 - FIRST OBSERVATIONS ON BATS IN THE VIRGIN CAVE (CHEKANOVSKOGO CAVE, EAST SIBERIA)

Botvinkin A.D., Osintsev A.V., Kazakov D.V., Shumkina A.P., Tiunov M.P.

Izvestiya Irkutskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya Biologiya. Ecologiya    Year: 2022 Volume: 40 Pages: 42-53

DOI: 10.26516/2073-3372.2022.40.42

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2022 - A Comparative Morphotypic Analysis of the First Lower Molars of the Reed Vole Alexandromys fortis (Büchner, 1889) from Insular and Fossil Populations in the South of the Russian Far East (Primorskii Krai)

Vinokurova M.A., Gusev A.E., Tiunov M.P.

Biology Bulletin    Year: 2022 Volume: 49 Number: 9 Pages: 1441-1454

DOI: 10.1134/S1062359022090369

2022 - Temporal variation in soricid dentition: which are first – qualitative or quantitative features?

Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Petrova E.A., Kryuchkova L.Yu.

Historical Biology    Year: 2022 Volume: 34 Number: 10 Pages: 1901-1915

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1986040

2021 - Intraspecific Variability of the Shape of the Lower Third Premolar in Ochotona hyperborea (Pallas 1811)

Gusev A.E., Tiunov M.P.

Biology Bulletin    Year: 2021 Volume: 48 Number: 8 Pages: 1358–1366

DOI: 10.1134/S1062359021080112

2021 - REMAINS OF MAMMALS IN THE TONTA AND KHURGANSKAYA CAVES ON LAKE BAIKAL

Filippov A.G., Erbaeva M.A., Kalmykov N.P., Ovodov N.D., Tiunov M.P., Khenzykhenova F.I., Shibanova I.V.

Speleology and spelestology    Year: 2021 Number: 3 Pages: 17-35

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2021 - Space-temporal morphological variation in the samples of first lower molars of reed vole Alexandromys fortis (Büchner, 1889) from Primorsky krai (south of the Russian Far East)

Vinokurova M., Gusev A., Tiunov M.

Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference    Year: 2021 Pages: 115

2021 - Late Pleistocene molluscs and small mammals from the Tetyukhinskaya cave (South Far East, Russia): preliminary results

Osipova E., Danukalova G., Tiunov M.

Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference    Year: 2021 Pages: 80-82

2021 - New finds of the fossil genus representatives of Tonomochota (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) in the Korydornaya cave (Jewish autonomous region, Far East of Russia)

Gusev A., Tiunov M.

Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference    Year: 2021 Pages: 37-38

2021 - Taphonomic analysis of craseomys vole remains from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene cave deposits of the Russian Far East

Fominykh M., Usoltseva A., Tiunov M., Borodin A.

Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference    Year: 2021 Pages: 27-28

2021 - Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge

Vershinina A.O., Heintzman P.D., Froese D.G., Zazula G., Cassatt-Johnstone M., Dalén L., Der Sarkissian C., Dunn S.G., Ermini L., Gamba C., Groves P., Kapp J.D., Mann D.H., Seguin-Orlando A., Southon J., Stiller M., Wooller M.J., Baryshnikov G., Gimranov D., Scott E., Hall E., Hewitson S., Kirillova I., Kosintsev P., Shidlovsky F., Tong H.-W., Tiunov M.P., Vartanyan S., Orlando L., Corbett-Detig R., MacPhee R.D., Shapiro B.

Molecular Ecology    Year: 2021 Volume: 30 Pages: 6144–6161

DOI: 10.1111/mec.15977

2021 - A new extinct ochotonid genus from the late Pleistocene of the Russian Far East

Tiunov M.P., Gusev A.E.

Palaeoworld    Year: 2021 Volume: 30 Number: 3 Pages: 562-572

DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2020.08.003

2021 - When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition

Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Vinokurova M.A.

Historical Biology    Year: 2021 Volume: 33 Number: 11 Pages: 2656-2667

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354

2020 - Active surveillance for antibodies confirms circulation of lyssaviruses in Palearctic bats

Seidlova V., Zukal J., Brichta J., Anisimov N., Apoznański G., Bandouchova H., Bartonička T., Berková H., Botvinkin A.D., Heger T., Dundarova H., Kokurewicz T., Linhart P., Orlov O.L., Piacek V., Presetnik P., Shumkina A.P., Tiunov M.P., Treml F., Pikula J.

BMC Veterinary Research    Year: 2020 Volume: 16 Number: 482

DOI: 10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y

2020 - Dental characters in Craseomys voles from the Late Pleistocene and Holocene cave deposit of the Russian Far East

Fominykh M.A., Usoltseva A.O., Tiunov M.P., Borodin A.V.

Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2020 Conference    Year: 2020 Pages: 148-149

2020 - The first fossil Petaurista (Mammalia: Sciuridae) from the Russian Far East and its paleogeographic significance

Tiunov M.P., Gimranov D.O.

Palaeoworld    Year: 2020 Volume: 29 Number: 1 Pages: 176-181

DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2019.05.007

2019 - The first find is the late pleistocene-holocene bone remains of Myospalax in the Jewish Autonomous Region (Russian Far East)

Tiunov M.P., Vinokurova M.V.

19th NECLIME meeting and X Memorial Readings of A.N. Kryshtofovich ( X Чтения памяти А.Н. Криштофовича): Program and abstracts    Year: 2019 Pages: 77

2019 - FAR-EASTERN GREY VOLES ALEXANDROMYS (RODENTIA: CRICETIDAE) FROM MEDVEZHYI KLYK CAVE LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE DEPOSITS, PRIMORSKII KRAY, RUSSIA

Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Tiunov M.P.

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences    Year: 2019 Volume: 323 Number: 3 Pages: 313-346

DOI: 10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.3.313

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2019 - Taxonomic status of the barbastelles (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Barbastella) from the Japanese archipelago and Kunashir Island

Kruskop S.V., Kawai K., Tiunov M.P.

Zootaxa    Year: 2019 Volume: 4567 Number: 3 Pages: 461–476

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.3

2019 - What Can an Invasive Species Tell Us about Evolution? A Study of Dental Variation in Disjunctive Populations of Microtus rossiaemeridionalis (Arvicolinae, Rodentia)

Markova E.A., Sibiryakov P.A., Kartavtseva I.V., Lapin A.S., Morozkina A.V., Petukhov V.A., Tiunov M.P., Starikov V.P.

Journal of Mammalian Evolution    Year: 2019 Volume: 26 Number: 2 Pages: 267–282

DOI: 10.1007/s10914-017-9401-1

2018 - Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats

Martínková N., Pikula J., Zukal J., Kovacova V., Bandouchova H., Bartonička T., Botvinkin A.D., Brichta J., Dundarova H., Kokurewicz T., Irwin N.R., Linhart P., Orlov O.L., Piacek V., Škrabánek P., Tiunov M.P., Zahradníková A.

Virulence    Year: 2018 Volume: 9 Number: 1 Pages: 1734-1750

DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2018.1548685

2018 - Clethrionomyini from the quaternary deposits of Tetyukhinskaya cave (Far East, Russia)

Borodin A., Fominykh M., Tiunov M., Usoltseva A., Zykov S.

XVI Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontology: Abstract Book    Year: 2018 Pages: 30

2018 - New finds of Mimomys in the Late Pleistocene cave deposits in Russia

Borodin A., Tiunov M., Strukova T., Zykov S.

Quaternary Stratigraphy and Karst & Cave Sediments: INQUA-SEQS 2018 Meeting, Postojna, (Slovenia)    Year: 2018 Pages: 15

2018 - White-nose syndrome detected in bats over an extensive area of Russia

Kovacova V., Zukal J., Bandouchova H., Botvinkin A.D., Harazim M., Martínková N., Orlov O.L., Piacek V., Shumkina A.P., Tiunov M.P., Pikula J.

BMC Veterinary Research    Year: 2018 Volume: 14:192

DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1521-1

2016 - The first finding of Asian black bear (Carnivora, Ursidae, Ursus (Euarctos) thibetanus G. Cuvier, 1823) in the Late Pleistocene of northern Eurasia

Kosintsev P.A., Tiunov M.P., Gimranov D.O., Panov V.S.

Doklady Biological Sciences    Year: 2016 Volume: 471 Number: 1 Pages: 266-268

DOI: 10.1134/S0012496616060041

2016 - Changes in the fauna of bats in the south of the Russian Far East since the late Pleistocene

Tiunov M.P.

Quaternary International    Year: 2016 Volume: 425 Pages: 464-468

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.09.061

2016 - The first finding of Mimomys in the Russian Far East.

Tiunov M.P., Golenishchev F.N., Voyta L.L.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica    Year: 2016 Volume: 61 Number: 1 Pages: 205-210

DOI: 10.4202/app.00082.2014

2015 - Comparison of genetic and morphological characters in fossil teeth of grey voles from the Russian Far East (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Alexandromys)

Haring E., Voyta L.L., Däubl B., Tiunov M.P.

Mammalian Biology    Year: 2015 Volume: 80 Issue: 6 Pages: 496-504

DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2015.08.001

2014 - Myospalax psilurus - a relic of the southeastarn outskirts of the mammoth fauna

Tiunov M.P.

The Quaternary of the Urals: global trends and Pan-European Quaternary records: International conference INQUA-SEQS (Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 10-16, 2014).    Year: 2014 Pages: 163-166

2014 - Bats from Kunashir and Iturup Islands

Kawai K., Tiunov M.P., Kondo N., Antipin M.A., Boiko V.N., Ohtaishi N., Dewa H.

Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum    Year: 2014 Volume: 4 Pages: 74-81

2013 - Analysis of shape and size variation of the first lower molar in Far-Eastern grey voles of genus Alexandromys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from Russian fauna using geometric morphometrics

Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Tiunov M.P.

Russian Journal of Theriology    Year: 2013 Volume: 12 Number: 1 Pages: 19-32

DOI: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.12.1.02

2013 - The Fatal Case of Lyssavirus Encephalitis in the Russian Far East

Leonova G.N., Somova L.M., Belikov S.I., Kondratov I.G., Plekhova N.G., Krylova N.V., Pavlenko E.V., Tiunov M.P., Tkachev S.E.

Encephalitis    Year: 2013 Pages: 231-250

2013 - Morphotype analysis of the sibling vole (Microtus rossiaemeridionalis) casually introduced to the Russian Far East

Tiunov M.P., Kartavtseva I.V., Lapin A.S.

Acta Theriologica    Year: 2013 Volume: 58 Number: 1 Pages: 79-82

DOI: 10.1007/s13364-012-0092-y

2012 - Morphological Differentiation of Clethrionomys rufocanus Sundevall, 1846 and Clethrionomys rex Imaizumi, 1971 (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) in the Zone of Sympatry in the Far East

Borodin A.V., Fominykh M.A., Tiunov M.P.

Doklady Biological Sciences    Year: 2012 Volume: 447 Pages: 370-373

DOI: 10.1134/S0012496612060075

2012 - Invasion of Microtus rossiaemeridionalis into the Territory of the Russian Far East

Kartavtseva I.V., Tiunov M.P., Lapin A.S., Visotchina N.P., Ryabkova A.V.

Russian Journal of Biological Invasions    Year: 2012 Volume: 3 Number: 1 Pages: 11-15

DOI: 10.1134/S2075111712010031

2012 - A new species of cestode, Vampirolepis muraiae n. sp. (Cyclophyllidea: Hymenolepididae), from a Chinese bat

Makarikova T.A., Gulyaev V.D., Tiunov M.P., Feng J.

Systematic Parasitology    Year: 2012 Volume: 82 Number: 1 Pages: 29-37

DOI: 10.1007/s11230-012-9344-0

2011 - A new mouse-eared bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from South China

Tiunov M.P., Kruskop S.V., Feng J.

Acta Chiropterologica    Year: 2011 Volume: 13 Number: 2 Pages: 271-278

DOI: 10.3161/150811011X624758

2011 - Distribution of the bats in Russian Far East (Problems and questions)

Tiunov M.P.

2nd Japan-Russia cooperation on symposium on the conservation of the ecosystem in Okhotsk: abstracts    Year: 2011 Pages: 19-20

2011 - Some restrictions of the morphometric methods as applied to classification of fossil remains Sorex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) and Microtus (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Tiunov M.P., Panasenko V.E.

VI th European Congress of Mammalogy    Year: 2011 Pages: 39

2010 - The distribution history of the Amur brown lemming (Lemmus amurensis) in the Late Pleistocene - Holocene in the southern Far East of Russia

Tiunov M.P., Panasenko V.E.

Russian Journal of Theriology    Year: 2010 Volume: 9 Number: 1 Pages: 33-37

2010 - Some difficulties of using integrated approach in bat taxonomy

Tiunov M.P.

15th International Bat Research Conference (Prague, 23-27 aug 2010)    Year: 2010 Pages: 299

2010 - A NEW SPECIES OF CESTODE, VAMPIROLEPIS INSULA SP. N. (CYCLOPHYLLIDEA: HYMENOLEPIDIDAE) FROM BATS OF THE SAKHALIN AND KUNASHIR ISLANDS

Makarikova T.A., Gulyaev V.D., Tiunov M.P.

Parazitologiya    Year: 2010 Volume: 44 Number: 2 Pages: 160-166

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2007 - Seasonal molting in Myotis petax (Chiroptera) in the Russian Far East

Tiunov M.P., Makarikova T.A.

Acta Chiropterologica    Year: 2007 Number: 2 Pages: 538-541

DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2007)9[538:SMIMPC]2.0.CO;2

2003 - FAUNA AND DISTRIBUTION OF INSECTIVOROUS ANIMALS AND RODENTS IN THE NORTHWESTERN COASTAL REGION OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK

Tiunov M.P.

Zoologicheskiy zhurnal    Year: 2003 Volume: 82 Number: 6 Pages: 708-713

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2003 - NEW DATA ON DISTRIBUTION OF SMALL MAMMALS IN THE SEA OF OKHOTSK REGION AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES

Tiunov M.P.

Zoologicheskiy zhurnal    Year: 2003 Volume: 82 Number: 1 Pages: 123-125

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1998 - Morfometric analyses of the three subspecies of striped field mouse, Apodemus agrarius Pallas (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Far Eastern Asia: taxonomic statua of north korean striped field mice

Koh H.S., Csorba G., Tiunov M.P., Tikhonova G.

Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology    Year: 1998 Volume: 14 Number: 4 Pages: 327-334

1997 - Principles of organization and function of small mammal multispecies associations

Nesterenko V.A., Tiunov M.P.

New Scope on Boreal Ecosystems in East Siberia. DIWPA series. Vol.2.    Year: 1997 Volume: 2 Pages: 137-147

1996 - Fauna and relative abundance of bats in the Russian far-east

Tiunov M.P.

VIIth European bat research symposium    Year: 1996 Pages: 67

1993 - Two types of forearm length postnatal growth

Tiunov M.P.

9th International Conference on bat research (Madurai, India, August 1992): Bat research news Vol.34, N.1.    Year: 1993 Volume: 34 Number: 1 Pages: 43-44

1992 - On the formation of the bat fauna in the south of the Soviet Far East

Tiunov M.P., Kosmach A.V., Alexeeva E.V.

Prague studies in mammalogy    Year: 1992 Pages: 207-211

1990 - Foraging strategy of the closely related Chiroptera species

Tiunov M.P.

V International Congress of Ecology    Year: 1990 Pages: 316

1989 - The taxonomic implication of different morphological systems in bats

Tiunov M.P.

European bat research 1987    Year: 1989 Pages: 67-75

1989 - The taxonomic implications of different morphological systems in bats

Tiunov M.P.

Proceedings Fourth European Bat Research Symposium    Year: 1989 Pages: 67-75

1987 - Taxonomic value of morphology of the tongue and male accesory glands in bats

Tiunov M.P.

Fourth european bat research symposium    Year: 1987 Pages: 135