Systematic review of colubrid snakes of the genus Pareas in the East Asian Islands

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-87

  Ota, Hidetoshi ^a   Lin, Jun Tsong ^b   Hirata, Toru ^a   Chen, Szu Lung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Department of Earth Sciences   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUBRIDAE; PAREAS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030952047     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565332     Document Type: Article

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