Sexual maturation in free-ranging Chilabothrus angulifer (Serpentes: Boidae)
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R. ALEXANDER PYRON, R. GRAHAM REYNOLDS & FRANK T. BURBRINK 1 Dept. of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, 2023 G St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20052; Email: [email protected] 2Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Email: [email protected] 3Dept. of Biology, The Gradua...
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عنوان ژورنال: Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2316-9079,1519-1397
DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v15i2p163-174