Biparental care in the tadpole-feeding Amazonian treefrog Osteocephalus oophagus

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-249

  Jungfer, Karl Heinz ^a   Weygoldt, Peter ^b  

^a Albert Ludwigs Universitat ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FROG; PARENTAL CARE;

ANURA; OSTEOCEPHALUS OOPHAGUS;

EID: 0033379984     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853899x00277     Document Type: Article

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