Notes on the food habits of Coluber hippocrepis nigrescens from Pantelleria island: A snake that feeds on both carrion and living prey

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Capula, Massimo ^a,b   Luiselli, Luca ^a   Rugiero, Lorenzo ^c   Evangelisti, Fatima ^a   Anibaldi, Claudio ^a   Jesus, Veronica Trujillo ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Museo Civico di Zoologia   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUBER HIPPOCREPIS;

EID: 0030968816     PISSN: 02680130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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