An efficient method for skeletochronology

Herpetological Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 404-406

  Hasumi, Masato ^a   Watanabe, Yuichi G ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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