A new species of Boulengerula Tornier (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from an isolated mountain block of the Taita Hills, Kenya

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1004, 2005, Pages 37-50

  Müller, Hendrik ^a,b   Measey, G John ^c   Loader, Simon P ^a,d   Malonza, Patrick K ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Caecilians; East Africa; Eastern Arc Mountains; Herpetology; Phallus morphology; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BOULENGERULA; BOULENGERULA TAITANUS; CAECILIA; CAECILIIDAE (AMPHIBIA); GYMNOPHIONA;

EID: 33745237145     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1004.1.4     Document Type: Article

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