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Larval morphology of selected anuran species from India
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- 1. 62-8-26, Sriharipuram, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pardesh India & Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, PO Box 13, Dehardun 248001, Uttarakhand, India.
- 2. Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, Telangana, India.
- 3. Department of Zoology, Assam Don Bosco University, Sonapur 782 402, Assam, India.
- 4. Department of Zoology, Utkal University, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar 751004, Odisha, India. & P.G. Department of Zoology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Takatpur, Baripada 757003, Orissa, India.
- 5. P.G. Department of Zoology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Takatpur, Baripada 757003, Orissa, India.
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Raj, Prudhvi, Vasudevan, Karthikeyan, Dutta, Sushil Kumar, Sahoo, Gunanidhi, Mahapatra, Susmita, Sharma, Richa (2023): Larval morphology of selected anuran species from India. Alytes 39-40: 1-140, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16896351
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