The taxonomic identity of a population of terrestrial leiopelma (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) recently discovered in the northern King Country, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-146

  Bell, Ben D ^a   Daugherty, Charles H ^a   Hitchmough, Rodney A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allozyme variation; Conservation; Leiopelma archeyi; Leiopelma hamiltoni; Leiopelma pakeka; Morphology; New zealand; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC FROG; FROG;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, KING COUNTRY, WHAREORINO FOREST;

LEIOPELMA ARCHEYI; LEIOPELMA HAMILTONI; LEIOPELMA PAKEKA;

EID: 0031668880     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1998.9518144     Document Type: Article

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