Natural toe loss in southeastern Australian skinks: Implications for marking lizards by toe-clipping

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 106-110

  Hudson, Simon ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0030431399     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1564722     Document Type: Article

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