Two new cryptic species of Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Taiwan

Herpetologica

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-395

  Lue, Kuang Yang ^a   Lin, Si Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Allopatric speciation; Biogeography; Courtship; Cryptic species; Sexual dichromatism; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BREEDING SEASON; COURTSHIP; CRYPSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; LIZARD; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PIGMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA; TAKYDROMUS; TAKYDROMUS FORMOSANUS;

EID: 57349104148     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/07-030.1     Document Type: Article

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