Selected body temperatures of four lacertid lizards from the Canary Islands

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 122-124

  Márquez, Rafael ^a   Cejudo, Daniel ^b   Pérez Mellado, Valentin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b Asoc Herpetologica Espanola   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

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