Venom composition and diet of the cantil Agkistrodon bilineatus howardgloydi (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 478-483

  Solorzano, Alejandro ^a   Romero, Marjorie ^b   Gutierrez, José Maria ^b   Sasa, Mahmood ^c  

^a Serpentario Nacional   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGKISTRODON BILINEATUS;

EID: 0033370918     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672346     Document Type: Article

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