Phylogenetic relationships and systematic revision of central Texas hemidactline plethodontid salamanders

Herpetological Monographs

Volumn , Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1-80

  Chippindale, Paul T ^a   Price, Andrew H ^b   Wiens, John J ^c   Hillis, David M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Allozymes; Caudata; Central Texas; Cytochrome b; Eurycea; Eurycea chisholmensis new species; Eurycea naufragia new species; Eurycea tonkawae new species; Phylogeny; Plethodontidae; Speciation; Typhlomolge

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; EURYCEA; EURYCEA CHISHOLMENSIS; EURYCEA LATITANS; EURYCEA NANA; EURYCEA NAUFRAGIA; EURYCEA NEOTENES; EURYCEA PTEROPHILA; EURYCEA SOSORUM; EURYCEA TONKAWAE; EURYCEA TRIDENTIFERA; EURYCEA TROGLODYTES; HYDROMANTES; PLETHODONTIDAE; PLETHODONTINAE; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0003033816     PISSN: 07331347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2307/1467045     Document Type: Article

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