Diet of Rhinella schneideri (Werner, 1894) (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Cerrado, Central Brazil

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-21

  Batista, Renato de Carvalho ^a   De Carvalho, Crizanto Brito ^a,b   de Freitas, Evellyn Borges ^b   Franco, Stephane da Cunha ^b   Batista, Cassio de Carvalho ^a   Coelho, Welington Araújo ^c   Faria, Renato Gomes ^b  

^a Instituto Canindé de Pesquisa e Conservação ICA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anura; Cerrado; Diet; Rhinella

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTHROPODA; BUFONIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80051989555     PISSN: 20715773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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