Redescription of tetradactyl Philippine slender skinks (genus Brachymeles)

Herpetologica

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-317

  Siler, Cameron D ^a   Jones, Robin M ^a   Welton, Luke J ^a   Brown, Rafe M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Endemism; Faunal region; Limb reduction; Philippines; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; ENDEMISM; FAUNISTICS; LIMB; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; MUSEUM; PHENOTYPE; RARE SPECIES; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

BRACHYMELES; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80052081975     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00071.1     Document Type: Article

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