Morphology and natural history of the Land Mullet Egernia major (Squamata: Scincidae)

Australian Zoologist

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 351-364

  Shea, Glenn M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGERNIA; EGERNIA MAJOR; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0006196515     PISSN: 00672238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7882/AZ.1999.037     Document Type: Article

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