A new cryptic species of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia: Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Cuba

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3220, 2012, Pages 44-60

  Díaz, Luis M ^a   Hedges, S Blair ^b   Schmid, Michael ^c  

^a Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba   (Cuba)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioacoustics; Caribbean; Chromosomes; Euhyas; Morphology; Phylogeny; Terrarana; West Indies

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ELEUTHERODACTYLUS VARLEYI; EUHYAS; RANA SP.;

EID: 84858060520     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3220.1.3     Document Type: Article

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