A New Species of Frog Allied to Fejervarya limnocharis from the Southern Ryukyus, Japan (Amphibia: Ranidae)

Current Herpetology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-79

  Matsui, Masafumi ^a   Toda, Mamoru ^a   Ota, Hidetoshi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Fejervarya limnocharis; Fejervarya sakishimensis; Ryukyu Archipelago; Yaeyama Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149275723     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3105/1881-1019(2007)26[65:ANSOFA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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