Correlations of cranial morphology, ecology, and evolution in Australian suctorial tadpoles of the genera Litoria and Nyctimystes (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae: Pelodryadinae)

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-141

  Haas, Alexander ^a   Richards, Stephen J ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; Boophis; Cranial morphology; Functional morphology; Hyla; Hylidae; Litoria; Musculature; Nyctimystes; Pelodryadinae; Phylogeny; Suctorial larvae

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; ASCAPHUS TRUEI; BOOPHIS; HYLA; HYLA ARMATA; HYLIDAE; LITORIA; LITORIA CAERULEA; LITORIA GENIMACULATA; LITORIA NANNOTIS; LITORIA RHEOCOLA; LITORIA XANTHOMERA; NEOBATRACHIA; NYCTIMYSTES; NYCTIMYSTES DAYI; PELODRYADINAE; RECTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032211245     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4687(199811)238:2<109::aid-jmor1>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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