Bracketing the extremes: Courtship behaviour of the smallest-and largest-bodied species in the salamander genus desmognathus (plethodontidae: Desmognathinae)

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 247, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-111

  Verrell, Paul ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desmognathus spp.. Courtship; Ethogram; Phyloethology; Salamander

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; DESMOGNATHINAE; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS QUADRAMACULATUS; DESMOGNATHUS WRIGHTI; PLETHODONTIDAE;

EID: 0033475877     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb00197.x     Document Type: Article

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