Ultraviolet reflectance and cryptic sexual dichromatism in the ocellated lizard, Lacerta (Timon) lepida (Squamata: Lacertidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 766-780

  Font, Enrique ^a   PÉrez I De Lanuza, Guillem ^a   Sampedro, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body coloration; Reptile; Signalling; Spectral sensitivity; Visual communication; Visual ecology

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; LIZARD; MALE BEHAVIOR; ORNAMENTATION; PIGMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AVES; LACERTA LEPIDA; LACERTIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 68349130065     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01251.x     Document Type: Article

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