Among-islet variation in color, morphological and scalation characters in Podarcis atrata from the Columbretes archipelago, Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 142-146

  Castilla, Aurora M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PODARCIS ATRATA;

EID: 0034063737     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565251     Document Type: Article

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