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Kammerer's Alytes

Nature volume 118, page 661 (1926)Cite this article

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MAY I be permitted to reply briefly to Dr. Noble's letter on Kammerer‘s Alytes which appeared in NATURE of October 9? There are several questions involved: first, whether Dr. Noble was right in his statement to the British Association in 1925, that Kammerer's specimen did not show a genuine nuptial pad, because the characteristic glands were absent, and that the glands, not the spines, were diagnostic of these pads.

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MACBRIDE, E. Kammerer's Alytes. Nature 118, 661 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118661a0

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