A high mountain lizard from Peru: The world’s highest-altitude reptile
Life at high altitudes is particularly challenging for ectothermic animals like reptiles and involves the evolution of specialised adaptations to deal with low temperatures, hypoxia and intense UV radiation. As a result, only very few reptile taxa are able to survive above 5,000 m el...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Herpetozoa |
| Online Access: | https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/61393/download/pdf/ |