Adaptive morphometric variation in lizards of the genus Agama in Israel

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 385-394

  Izhaki, Ido ^a   Haim, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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