An appreciation of the physiology and morphology of the Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 313-328

  Jared, C ^a   Navas, C A ^b   Toledo, R C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amphibian ecology; Amphibian morphology; Amphibian natural history; Amphibian physiology; Amphibians; Caecilians; Gymnophiona; Siphonops annulatus

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; CIRCULATION; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTION; GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SENSE ORGAN; SPECIES;

SIPHONOPS ANNULATUS;

EID: 0032830937     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00076-8     Document Type: Review

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