Chondrocranial anatomy and skeletogenesis in Dendrobates auratus

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-210

  De Sá, Rafael Q ^a   Hill, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROBATES AURATUS;

EID: 0031871210     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565298     Document Type: Article

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