Description of a new species of Takydromus from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, and a taxonomic redefinition of T. smaragdinus Boulenger 1887 (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

Herpetologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-88

  Takeda, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Ota, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Kounan High School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lacertidae; Miyako Islands; Reptilia; Ryukyu Archipelago; Squamata; T. smaragdinus; Takydromus toyamai

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002456626     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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