Taxonomic status of the enigmatic salamander Cryptotriton adelos (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from northern Oaxaca, Mexico, with observations on its skull and postcranial skeleton
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DAVID B. WAKE, SEAN M. ROVITO, JESSICA A. MAISANO & JAMES HANKEN 4 Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3160, USA. E-mail:[email protected]; [email protected] Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 1999