Demography and endangerment of the Utila Island spiny-tailed iguana, ctenosaura bakeri

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-113

  Gutsche, Alexander ^a   Streich, Wolf Jürgen ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CTENOSAURA; IGUANIA; IGUANIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77649269486     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/07-248R2.1     Document Type: Article

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