Sexual size dimorphism in the fiye-striped blue-tailed skink, Eumeces elegans, with notes on its life history in Taiwan

Zoological Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 188-194

  Huang, Wen San ^a  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eumeces elegans; Population structure; Sexual size difference; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030509921     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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