Phylogenetic relationships among the box turtles, genus Terrapene

Herpetologica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 584-597

  Minx, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Systematics; Terrapene; Turtles

Indexed keywords

TERRAPENE; TERRAPENE CAROLINA; TERRAPENE COAHUILA; TERRAPENE NELSONI; TERRAPENE ORNATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0030512737     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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