Checklist and comments on the terrestrial reptile fauna of Kau wildlife area, Papua New Guinea

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 167-170

  Austin, Christopher C ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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