Diet of the turtle Deirochelys reticularia on the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 450-453

  Demuth, Jeffery P ^a   Buhlmann, Kurt A ^b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEIROCHELYS RETICULARIA; RETICULARIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0030968601     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565680     Document Type: Article

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