A new limb-reduced, loam-swimming skink (squamata: Scincidae: Brachymeles) from Central Luzon Island, Philippines

Herpetologica

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-459

  Siler, Cameron D ^a   Rico, Edmond L ^b   Duya, Mariano R ^c   Brown, Rafe M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Conservation International ^*  (Philippines)

^c Door 5 de Peralta Building   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Endemism; Faunal region; Fossoriality; Limb reduction; Philippines

Indexed keywords

LIMB; LIZARD; LOAM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PIGMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWIMMING;

CENTRAL LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

BRACHYMELES; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77649128640     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/08-076.1     Document Type: Article

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