A checklist and key to the phrynocephalid lizards of Pakistan, with ethnological notes (Squamata: Agamidae)

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-24

  Khan, Muhammad Sharif ^a  

^a Herpetological Laboratory   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ethnological behaviour; Phrynocephalid

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LIZARD; SPECIES INVENTORY;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 0032701689     PISSN: 00309923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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