Skull allometry in the marine toad, Bufo marinus

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-126

  Birch, James M ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bufo; Morphometrics; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; BUFO MARINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033179584     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199908)241:2<115::AID-JMOR2>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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