Courtship and mating behavior in the brown house snake Lamprophis fulginosus

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 416-418

  Walker, Sean E ^a   Ford, Neil B ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMPROPHIS; LAMPROPHIS FULGINOSUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030433104     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565183     Document Type: Article

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