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Variations on a bauplan: description of a new Malagasy "mermaid skink" with flipper-like forelimbs only (Scincidae, Sirenoscincus Sakata & Hikida, 2003)

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  • 1. Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 4, D-38106 Braunschweig (Germany) CNRS-UMR 5175 CEFE, Centre d'Écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, 1919 route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5 (France) miralles.skink@gmail.com
  • 2. Département de Biologie animale, Université d'Antananarivo, B.P. 906, Antananarivo 101 (Madagascar)
  • 3. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin (Germany)
  • 4. Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 München (Germany)
  • 5. Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 4, D-38106 Braunschweig (Germany)

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Miralles, Aurélien, Anjeriniaina, Mirana, Hipsley, Christy A., Müller, Johannes, Glaw, Frank, Vences, Miguel (2012): Variations on a bauplan: description of a new Malagasy "mermaid skink" with flipper-like forelimbs only (Scincidae, Sirenoscincus Sakata & Hikida, 2003). Zoosystema 34 (4): 701-719, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n4a3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2012n4a3

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