Intercontinental dispersal by a microendemic burrowing reptile (Dibamidae)
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Intercontinental dispersal by a microendemic burrowing reptile (Dibamidae).
Intercontinental dispersal via land bridge connections has been important in the biogeographic history of many Holarctic plant and animal groups. Likewise, some groups appear to have accomplished trans-oceanic dispersal via rafting. Dibamid lizards are a clade of poorly known fossorial, essentially limbless species traditionally split into two geographically disjunct genera: Dibamus comprises a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2598