Comparative anatomy and physiology of chemical senses in nonavian aquatic reptiles

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-81

  Schwenk, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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