Marine reptiles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rasmussen, Arne Redsted ^a   Murphy, John C ^b   Ompi, Medy ^c   Gibbons, J Whitfield ^d   Uetz, Peter ^e  

^a Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole   (Denmark)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c SAM RATULANGI UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL FOOD; BREEDING; HUMAN; LIZARD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPTILE; REVIEW; SEA SNAKE; SEA TURTLE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMIC RANK; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GENETICS; SEA;

REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 80555145256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027373     Document Type: Review

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