Allometry and sexual dimorphism in the snail-eating turtle Malayemys macrocephala from the Chao Phraya River Basin of central Thailand

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-165

  Brophy, Timothy R ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Covenant Schools   (United States)

^c LIBERTY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; MALAYEMYS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33744497266     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/1071-8443(2006)5[159:AASDIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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