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Research Article

Testing the Wallace’s riverine barrier hypothesis based on frog and Squamata reptile assemblages from a tributary of the lower Amazon River

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Pages 322-331 | Received 21 Sep 2020, Accepted 29 Dec 2020, Published online: 17 Jan 2021

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