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Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya

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  • 1. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA; & Research Associate, Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, & Corresponding author; E-mail: aaron.bauer@villanova.edu.
  • 2. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA;

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Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C., Taylor, Dylan J. (2017): Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8): 155-318, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13155907

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