Natural diet of the namaqualand speckled padloper (Homopus signatus signatus)

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 149-152

  Loehr, Victor J T ^a  

^a Homopus Research Foundation   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

HOMOPUS SIGNATUS; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 33744491787     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/1071-8443(2006)5[149:NDOTNS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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