Sympatric occurrence of two species of the two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata) complex

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2000, Pages 572-578

  Camp, Carlos D ^a   Marshall, Jeremy L ^b   Landau, Keli R ^b   Austin Jr , Richard M ^a   Tilley, Stephen G ^c  

^a PIEDMONT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CONTACT ZONE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRY;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; EURYCEA BISLINEATA; EURYCEA CIRRIGERA; EURYCEA WILDERAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 0034621713     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2000)000[0572:SOOTSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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