Assessing the taxonomic status of tropical frogs through bioacoustics: Geographical variation in the advertisement calls in the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Anura)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 353-365

  Padial, José M ^a   Köhler, Jörn ^b   Muñoz, Arturo ^c   De La Riva, Ignacio ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ^*  (Germany)

^c Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Amazon; Andes; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS CRURALIS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS DISCOIDALIS; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS IBISCHI;

EID: 38749131618     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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