A new species of Colostethus from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) with comments on intergeneric relationships within the Dendrobatidae

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 369-375

  Kaplan, Moises ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOSTETHUS; DENDROBATES; DENDROBATIDAE; MANNOPHRYNE; MINYOBATES; NEPHELOBATES;

EID: 0030924571     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565665     Document Type: Article

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