Frequency and phenotypic differences of melanistic and normally colored common lizards, Lacerta (Zootoca) vivipara of the Southern Pyrenees (Spain)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 422-425

  San Jose, Luis M ^a,b   Gonzalez Jimena, Virginia ^a,b   Fitze, Patrick S ^a,b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 57749172457     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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