New species of Amphisbaena with a nonautotomic and dorsally tuberculate blunt tail from state of Bahia, Brazil (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae)

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 172-175

  Mott, Tamí ^a   Rodrigues, Miguel T ^a   De Freitas, Marco A ^b   Silva, Thais F S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHISBAENA; AMPHISBAENIA; AMPHISBAENIDAE; RHINEURA FLORIDANA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 40549146168     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/07-074R2.1     Document Type: Article

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