A new species of striped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar

Zootaxa

Volumn 3785, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-58

  Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Presswell, Bronwen ^a,b   Sherratt, Emma ^a,c   Papadopoulou, Anna ^a,d   Gower, David J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Burma; Caecilians; Conservation; Ichthyophiids; Out of India; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYANMAR; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYANMAR; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84898737800     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.4     Document Type: Article

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