Sorting out lalos: Description of new species and additional taxonomic data on megophryid frogs from northern Indochina (genus Leptolalax, Megophryidae, Anura)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3147, 2011, Pages 1-83

  Ohler, Annemarie ^a   Wollenberg, Katharina C ^b   Grosjean, Stéphane ^a   Hendrix, Ralf ^c,d   Vences, Miguel ^e   Ziegler, Thomas ^f   Dubois, Alain ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f Cologne Zoo ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Molecular phylogenetics; Morphology; Tadpoles; Taxonomy; Type specimens

Indexed keywords

ANURA; LEPTOLALAX; LEPTOLALAX PELODYTOIDES; MEGOPHRYIDAE;

EID: 84555187994     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3147.1.1     Document Type: Article

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