Movements and demography of the sonoran mud turtle, kinosternon sonoriense

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-53

  Stone, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINOSTERNON; KINOSTERNON SONORIENSE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0035037426     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672372     Document Type: Article

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