At the lower size limit in tetrapods: A new diminutive frog from Cuba (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1996, Pages 852-859

  Estrada, Alberto R ^a   Hedges, S Blair ^b  

^a Inst de Investigaciones Forestales   (Cuba)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; BRACHYCEPHALIDAE; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS CUBANUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS LIMBATUS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS ORIENTALIS; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; MICROHYLIDAE; PSYLLOPHRYNE; PSYLLOPHRYNE DIDACTYLA; SOOGLOSSIDAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 0030467684     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447647     Document Type: Article

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