Reticulate melanism in Southwestern populations of Chrysemys picta bellii (Testudines: Emydidae)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 80-82

  Stuart, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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