Local patterns of land snail diversity in a Kenyan rain forest

Malacologia

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 161-180

  Tattersfield, P ^a  

^a Bettfield Clough Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Biodiversity; Gastropoda; Kakamega forest; Kenya; Land snails; Rain forest

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; KAKAMEGA; MOLLUSCA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030511147     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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