Catalogue of the amphibians of ethiopia, including a key for their identification

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-402

  Largen, Malcolm J ^a  

^a Liverpool Museum   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Ecology; Endemicity; Ethiopia; Identification; Taxonomy; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035736938     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.2001.10531159     Document Type: Article

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