Taxonomic status of the yellow-headed agama, laudakia nupta fusca (blanford, 1876) (sauria: agamidae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-50

  Cheatsazan, Hamed ^a   Mahjoorazad, Atabak ^a   Rabani, Vahideh ^b   Kami, Haji Gholi ^c  

^a Section of Environment   (Iran)

^b ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^c GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Contact zones; Evolution; Middle East; Systematics; Taxonomy; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ZONE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ASIA; BUSHEHR; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

AGAMA; AGAMIDAE; LAUDAKIA NUPTA; SAURIA;

EID: 50849099141     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2008.10638287     Document Type: Article

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