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Sex Identification in the Mink ( Mustela vison Schreber) by Metrical Measurements of the Skull
Author(s) -
WIIG øYSTEIN,
LIE ROLF W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1980.tb00652.x
Subject(s) - mink , biology , discriminant function analysis , skull , mustelidae , zoology , norwegian , identification (biology) , anatomy , american mink , molar , ecology , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy
The dental length and length of the first molar in the upper jaw of mink are characteristics used to estimate a discriminant function for sex identification of Norwegian populations. Reliability of the method is theoretically 93.2%.