Biology and impacts of pacific island invasive species. 5. Eleutherodactylus coqui, the coqui frog (anura: Leptodactylidae)

Pacific Science

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-316

  Beard, Karen H ^a   Price, Emily A ^a   Pitt, William C ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FROG; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PUERTO RICO;

ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE;

EID: 67651125103     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/049.063.0301     Document Type: Article

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