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Natural History Notes. Odorrana hosii (Poisonous Rock Frog). Interspecific Amplexus.

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Ganjar Cahyadi at Bandung Institute of Technology
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Umilaela Arifin at Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
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Herpetological Review 52(2), 2021
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UMILAE LA ARIFIN, Centrum für Naturkunde - Zoologisches Museum,
Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 20146 Hamburg, Germany
(e-mail: umilaela@uni-hamburg.de); GANJAR CAHYADI, Museum Zoolo-
gy, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technolo-
gy, Kabupaten Sumedang 45363, Indonesia (e-mail: ganjar@sith.itb.ac.id).
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GANJAR CA HYADI, Museum Zoology, School of Life Sciences and
Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Kabupaten Sumedang
45363, Indonesia (e-mail: ganjar@sith.itb.ac.id); UMILAELA ARIFIN,
Centrum für Naturkunde - Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg,
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 20146 Hamburg, Germany (e-mail: umilaela@
uni-hamburg.de).
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