Behavioural interactions between a rare male phenotype and female unisexual Lepidodactylus lugubris

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 69-73

  Brown, Susan G ^a   Murphy Walker, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

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