Is there an antipredator blood-squirting defense in the bull horned lizard, Phrynosoma taurus?

Herpetological Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-347

  Sherbrooke, Wade C ^a   Beltran Sanchez, Elizabeth ^b   Mendoza Quijano, Fernando ^c   Baur, Bertrand ^d   Middendorf III, George A ^e  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE GUERRERO   (Mexico)

^c Inst Tecn Agropecuario de Hidalgo   (Mexico)

^d Howard University ^*  (Switzerland)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMA TAURUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 12244267763     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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