A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Sherratt, Emma ^a,b   Starace, Fausto ^c   Gower, David J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c not available   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL COLLAR; ECOLOGY; FEEDING; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GYMNOPHIONA; HOLOTYPE; MALE; MICROCAECILIA DERMATOPHAGA; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OVIPARITY; PARATYPE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SIPHONOPIDAE; SKIN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84874594481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057756     Document Type: Article

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