The freshwater turtle genus Mauremys (Testudines, Geoemydidae) - A textbook example of an east-west disjunction or a taxonomic misconcept?

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-221

  Barth, Dana ^a   Bernhard, Detlef ^a   Fritzsch, Guido ^a   Fritz, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Zoological Museum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BATAGURIDAE; CHINEMYS; CUORA; JAPONICA; MAUREMYS; MAUREMYS ANNAMENSIS; MAUREMYS CASPICA; MAUREMYS JAPONICA; MAUREMYS LEPROSA; MAUREMYS MUTICA; MAUREMYS RIVULATA; OCADIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 2342561088     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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