Morphometric variation, sexual size dimorphism and character scaling in a marginal population of montandon's newt triturus montandoni from the Czech Republic

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 399-405

  Dandová, Radka ^a   Weidinger, Karel ^b   Zavadil, Vít ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allometry; Amphibia; Sexual dimorphism; Size variation; Triturus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040294451     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250009809386781     Document Type: Article

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