Use of the tail in terrestrial locomotor activities of juvenile Chelydra serpentina

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1997, Pages 884-887

  Finkler, Michael S ^a   Claussen, Dennis L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELYDRA SERPENTINA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031449375     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447311     Document Type: Article

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