New species of Phrynocephalus (Squamata, Agamidae) from Qinghai, Northwest China

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1988, 2009, Pages 61-68

  Ji, Xiang ^a,b   Wang, Yue Zhao ^c   Wang, Zheng ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Morphological description; New species; Northwest China; Phrynocephalus guinanensis sp. nov.

Indexed keywords

AGAMIDAE; PHRYNOCEPHALUS; PHRYNOCEPHALUS VLANGALII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 63849087396     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1988.1.5     Document Type: Article

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