Ultraviolet reflectance and cryptic sexual dichromatism in the ocellated lizard, Lacerta (Timon) lepida (Squamata: Lacertidae)
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0024-4066,1095-8312
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01251.x