Two new species of the "kuhlii" complex of the genus Limnonectes from Thailand (Anura: Dicroglossidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2615, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Matsui, Masafumi ^a   Panha, Somsak ^b   Khonsue, Wichase ^b   Kuraishi, Norihiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Limnonectes; Mitochondrial DNA; New species; Nuclear DNA; Phylogeny; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ANURA; LIMNONECTES; LIMNONECTES KUHLII;

EID: 77956920348     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2615.1.1     Document Type: Article

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