New species of earless lizard genus heterodactylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the highlands of chapada diamantina, state of Bahia, Brazil

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 605-611

  Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a   De Freitas, Marco Antonio ^b   Silva, Thais Figueiredo Santos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE; HETERODACTYLUS; HOLBROOKIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 73149116404     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/08-133.1     Document Type: Article

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