Global Taxonomic Diversity of Living Reptiles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pincheira Donoso, Daniel ^a   Bauer, Aaron M ^b   Meiri, Shai ^c   Uetz, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; COLUBRIDAE; CROCODILE; LIZARD; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; REPTILE; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPHENODON; SQUAMATE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; INTERNATIONALITY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMNIOTA; ANOLIS; AVES; COLUBRIDAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); LIOLAEMUS; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SERPENTES; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84875416302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059741     Document Type: Article

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