Cytotaxonomic considerations with the description of two new NOR locations for South American toads, genus Bufo (Anura: Bufonidae)

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-420

  Baldissera Jr , Flavio A ^a   Batistic, Radenka F ^b   Haddad, Célio F B ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

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EID: 0009959419     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853899507167     Document Type: Article

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