Relationship between mass and length in Australian elapid snakes

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 375-380

  Greer, A E ^a   Shine, R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allometry; Elapids; Mass; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY;

AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRELAPS RAMSAYI; PSEUDONAJA TEXTILIS;

EID: 0033792486     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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