Evolutionary implications of hemipenial morphology in the terrestrial Australian elapid snakes

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-278

  Keogh, J Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Copulatory organ; Evolution; Reptile; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOPHIS; AUSTRELAPS; DEMANSIA; DRYSDALIA; ELAPIDAE; HOPLOCEPHALUS; MYSTRIOPHIS; NOTECHIS; OXYURANUS; PSEUDECHIS; PSEUDONAJA; REPTILIA; RHINOPLOCEPHALUS; SERPENTES; SIMOSELAPS; SIMOSELAPS BERTHOLDI; SIMOSELAPS SEMIFASCIATUS; SUTA; TROPIDECHIS; VERMICELLA;

EID: 0033239091     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00592.x     Document Type: Article

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