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Diet composition of an invasive population of Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog) from Argentina

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  • 1. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina;
  • 2. CONICET, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Filosofía Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

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Quiroga, Lorena Beatriz, Moreno, María Daniela, Cataldo, Ariel Aníbal, Aragón-Traverso, Juan Héctor, Pantano, María Victoria, Olivares, Juan Pablo Segundo, Sanabria, Eduardo Alfredo (2015): Diet composition of an invasive population of Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog) from Argentina. Journal of Natural History 49 (27): 1703-1716, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1005711

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