Patterns of skull development in anurans: Size and shape relationship during postmetamorphic cranial ontogeny in five species of the Leptodactylus fuscus Group (Anura: Leptodactylidae)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-362

  Ponssa, María Laura ^a   Candioti, M Florencia Vera ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN MIGUEL LILLO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Allometry; Geometric morphometrics; Ontogenetic trajectories

Indexed keywords

ANURA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLUS; LEPTODACTYLUS BUFONIUS; LEPTODACTYLUS FUSCUS; LEPTODACTYLUS LATINASUS; LEPTODACTYLUS MYSTACEUS; METAMORPHA;

EID: 84868583143     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-012-0164-1     Document Type: Article

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