Using decoys to capture spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) in water funnel traps

Herpetological Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 157-158

  Mansfield, Patricia ^a   Strauss, Eric G ^b   Auger, Peter J ^b  

^a E C P Inc   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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