Relationship between skull form and prey selection in the thamnophiine snake genera Nerodia and Regina

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 463-475

  Dwyer, Christine M ^a   Kaiser, Hinrich ^b,c  

^a La Sierra University ^*  (United States)

^b LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERODIA; REGINA;

EID: 0031471998     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565597     Document Type: Article

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