A new genus and species of frog from Bahia, Brazil (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) with comments on the zoogeography of the Brazilian campos rupestres

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-39

  Ronald Heyer, W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROG; NEW GENUS; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

BRAZIL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CHACO; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; RUPIRANA; RUPIRANA CARDOSOI; THOROPA;

EID: 0033596779     PISSN: 0006324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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