Paterns of morphological variation in the skull and cephalic scales of the lacertid lizard Algyroides nigropunctatus

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-72

  Ljubisavljević, Katarina ^a   Polović, Lidija ^b   Urošević, Aleksandar ^a   Ivanović, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Natural History Museum of Montenegro   (Montenegro)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cranium; Geometric morphometrics; Pileus; Sexual shape dimorphism; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ALGYROIDES NIGROPUNCTATUS; LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79952968001     PISSN: 02680130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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