Elastic Structures in the Vocalization Apparatus of the Túngara Frog Physalaemus pustulosus (Leptodactylidae)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 287-295

  Jaramillo, César ^a   Rand, A Stanley ^a   Ibáñez, Roberto ^a   Dudley, Robert ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREATHING; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; HISTOLOGY; LARYNX; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; ANURA; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; LARYNX; MALE; RESPIRATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; PHYSALAEMUS PUSTULOSUS;

EID: 0031239794     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199709)233:3<287::AID-JMOR7>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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