A new species of Colostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from Venezuela

Herpetologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-77

  Meinhardt, Daniel J ^a   Parmelee, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anura; Colostethus; Dendrobatidae; New species; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

EID: 5244383370     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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