A new species of Osteocephalus (Anura: Hylidae) from Amazonian Ecuador and Peru

Herpetologica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 433-446

  Ron, Santiago ^a,b   Pramuk, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Anura; Ecuador; Hylidae; New species; Osteocephalus yasuni; Peru

Indexed keywords

OSTEOCEPHALUS; OSTEOCEPHALUS PLANICEPS; OSTEOCEPHALUS YASUNI;

EID: 0033394743     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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