Paleogeography of the Antilles and origin of West Indian terrestrial vertebrates

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-244

  Hedges, S Blair ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animals; Biogeography; Caribbean; Dispersal; Systematics; Vertebrates; Vicariance; West Indies

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; SORICIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA; XANTUSIIDAE;

EID: 33748998189     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/0026-6493(2006)93[231:POTAAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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