A new species of arboreal viper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Athens) from Cameroon, Africa

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 793-803

  Lawson, Dwight P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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