Ontogeny of a new Palaeogene pipid frog from southern South America and xenopodinomorph evolution

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 439-476

  Báez, Ana M ^a   Pugener, L Analía ^b  

^a Facultad Ciencias Exactas/Naturales   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Patagonia; Pipidae; Shelania; Silurana; Xenopodinae; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ANURA; PIPIDAE; PIPOIDEA; SILURANA; XENOPODINAE;

EID: 0344961842     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00085.x     Document Type: Article

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