Comments on Euspondylus and Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Peru, with the description of three new species and a key to the Peruvian species

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 501-518

  Köhler, Gunther ^a   Lehr, Edgar ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b DNA Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Euspondylus; Gymnophthalmidae; New species; Peru; Proctoporus; Squamata

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ECPLEOPUS; ECPLEOPUS GUENTHERI; EUSPONDYLUS; GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; PROCTOPORUS; PROCTOPORUS GUENTHERI; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644273705     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-93     Document Type: Review

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