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Late Pleistocene-Holocene amphibians from Okinawajima Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan: Reconfirmed faunal endemicity and the Holocene range collapse of forest-dwelling species

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Nakamura, Y, Ota, H (2015): Late Pleistocene-Holocene amphibians from Okinawajima Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan: Reconfirmed faunal endemicity and the Holocene range collapse of forest-dwelling species. Palaeontologia Electronica 28 (6): 1-26, DOI: 10.26879/503, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/503

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