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Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate

Living vertebrates vary drastically in body size, yet few taxa reach the extremely minute size of some frogs and teleost fish. Here we describe two new species of diminutive terrestrial frogs from the megadiverse hotspot island of New Guinea, one of which represents the smallest known vertebrate spe...

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Autores principales: Rittmeyer, Eric N., Allison, Allen, Gründler, Michael C., Thompson, Derrick K., Austin, Christopher C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3256195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22253785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029797