A new striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Current Herpetology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-169

  Nishikawa, Kanto ^a   Matsui, Masafumi ^a   Sudin, Ahmad ^b   Wong, Anna ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Caecilian; Ichthyophis; Mt. Kinabalu; New species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882329343     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.32.159     Document Type: Article

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