Female reciprocal calling in a Costa Rican leaf-litter frog, Eleutherodactylus podiciferus

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1076-1080

  Schlaepfer, Martin A ^a   Figeroa Sandí, Randy ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Copal de Agua Buena ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PODICIFERUS;

EID: 0032583431     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447362     Document Type: Article

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