The terrestrial breeding biology of the ranid rock frog nannophrys ceylonensis

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 899-913

  Wickramasinghe, D D ^a   Oseen, K L ^b   Kotagama, S W ^a   Wassersug, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding; Nannophrys ceylonensis; Paternal care; Polygyny

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944223278     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042265653     Document Type: Article

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