Male Courtship Behavior of Tylototriton (Echinotritori) andersoni Boulenger under Laboratory Conditions

Current Herpetology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 67-74

  utsunomiya, Taeko ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^b  

^a Kyoto University ^*  (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amamioshima; Male courtship behavior; Okinawajima; Sperm morphology; Spermatophore deposition; Tokunoshima; Tylototriton (Echinotriton) andersoni

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744603184     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.67     Document Type: Article

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