Monitor lizards: A pan-African check-list of their zoogeography (Sauria: Varanidae: Polydaedalus)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1643-1701

  Bayless, Mark K ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

African lizards; African monitor lizards; African zoogeography; Varanus

Indexed keywords

LIZARD; SPECIES INVENTORY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE; VARANUS; VARANUS NILOTICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036944684     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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