A collection of amphibians from Río San Juan, southeastern Nicaragua

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-202

  Sunyer, Javier ^a,b,c   Páiz, Guillermo ^d   Dehling, David Matthias ^a   Köhler, Gunther ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^d Altamira D'Este ^*  (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Conservation; Ecology; Morphometry; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 76949109225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20715773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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