Home range and habitat use of the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 350-358

  Burns, Glen ^a   Heatwole, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIPYSURUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031691839     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565449     Document Type: Article

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