Hemipenial morphology of the South American xenodontine snakes, with a proposal for a monophyletic Xenodontinae and a reappraisal of colubroid hemipenes

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Volumn , Issue 240, 1999, Pages 3-95

  Zaher, Hussam ^a  

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CAPITULUM; COLUBROIDEA; CONOPHIS; FARANCIA; HETERODON; PHILODRYAS; SERPENTES; TROPIDODRYAS; XENODONTINAE; XENOXYBELIS;

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