Karyotype of the Lygosomine genus Ateuchosaurus from East Asia

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 604-607

  Ota, Hidetoshi ^a   Lin, Jun Tsong ^b   Bogadek, Anthony ^c   Lau, Michael W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Department of Earth Sciences   (Taiwan)

^c St Louis School   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0031438203     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565622     Document Type: Article

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