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Diversity in Australia's tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae)

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Melville, Jane, Ritchie, Euan G., Chapple, Stephanie N.J., Glor, Richard E., Schulte, James A. (2018): Diversity in Australia's tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria (Mem. Mus. Vic.) 77: 41-61, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2018.77.04, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2018.77.04

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