A note on the unkenreflex and similar defensive postures inrana temporaria (anura, amphibia)

Herpetological Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 61, 1997, Pages 16-20

  Haberl, Werner ^a   Wilkinson, John W ^b  

^a Walton Hall ^*  (Austria)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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