A widely traveled turtle: Mauremys reevesii (Testudines: Geoemydidae) in Timor-Leste

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-96

  Kaiser, Hinrich ^a   Carvalho, Venancio Lopez ^b   Freed, Paul ^c   O'Shea, Mark ^c,d  

^a Victor Valley College   (United States)

^b Universidade National Timor Lorosa'e   (United States)

^c Department of Herpetology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human mitigated introduction; Mauremys chinemys reevesii; Pelodiscus sinensis; Timor leste

Indexed keywords

CHINEMYS; GEOEMYDIDAE; MAUREMYS REEVESII; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77953116036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20715773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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