Advertisement Call Structures of Frogs from Southwestern India, with Some Ecological and Taxonomic Notes

Current Herpetology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 85-95

  Kuramoto, Mitsuru ^a   Joshy, S Hareesh ^b  

^a St Aloysius College ^*  (Japan)

^b ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Advetisement call; bioacoustics; frogs; India; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348899857     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.20.85     Document Type: Article

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