Male-male combat and head morphology in a fanged frog (Rana kuhlii) from Taiwan

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 520-526

  Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^a  

^a BAIKA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; LIMNONECTES KUHLII; RANA KUHLII;

EID: 0036747980     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0520:MMCAHM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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