Glassfrogs (Anura: Centrolenidae) of Kaieteur National Park, Guyana, with notes on the distribution and taxonomy of some species of the family in the Guiana Shield

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1680, 2008, Pages 25-53

  Kok, Philippe J R ^a   Castroviejo Fisher, Santiago ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Centrolene gorzulai; Centrolene papillahallicum; Centrolenid frogs; Cochranella ametarsia; Cochranella helenae; Cochranella midas; Cochranella oyampiensis; French Guiana; Hyalinobatrachium mondolfii; Hyalinobatrachium nouraguense; Hyalinobatrachium taylori

Indexed keywords

ANURA; CENTROLENE; CENTROLENE GORZULAI; CENTROLENIDAE; COCHRANELLA; COCHRANELLA MIDAS; HYALINOBATRACHIUM; HYALINOBATRACHIUM TAYLORI;

EID: 38549117878     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1680.1.2     Document Type: Article

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