Skull characters and the cladistic relationships of the Hispaniolan dwarf twig Anolis

Herpetological Monographs

Volumn 12, Issue , 1998, Pages 192-236

  Poe, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anolis insolitus; Anolis placidus; Anolis sheplani; Character coding; Cladistics; Phylogeny; Skulls; Twig ecomorph

Indexed keywords

ANOLIS; ANOLIS DARLINGTONI; ANOLIS INSOLITUS; ANOLIS OCCULTUS; ANOLIS PLACIDUS; ANOLIS SHEPLANI; PHENACOSAURUS;

EID: 0039222327     PISSN: 07331347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2307/1467021     Document Type: Article

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