Morphological variation in brown frogs from the Caucasus and the taxonomy of the Rana macrocnemis group

Herpetologica

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 406-417

  Tarkhnishvili, David N ^a,b   Arntzen, J W ^a,c   Thorpe, Roger S ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Tbilisi   (Georgia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Brown frogs; Caucasus; Clinal variation; Coloration; Multivariate statistics; Near East; Rana macrocnemis; Taxonomy; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

RANA CAMERANI; RANA MACROCNEMIS;

EID: 0032704517     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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