Diets of two syntopic populations of frogs, Rana vaillanti and Rana brownorum, from a tropical rain forest in southern Veracruz, MéXico

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-320

  Ramírez Bautista, Aurelio ^a   Lemos Espinal, Julio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MOLLUSCA; ORTHOPTERA; RANA BROWNORUM; RANA VAILLANTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4544225696     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0316:DOTSPO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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