The thread snake, leptotyphlops macrorhynchus (reptilia: leptotyphlopidae) as a presumed prey item for the racer coluber rhodorachis (reptilia: colubridae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-92

  Mulder, John ^a  

^a NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hookbilled Thread Snake; Iran; Jan s Desert Snake; Middle East; Ophiophagy

Indexed keywords

PREDATION; SNAKE;

IRAN;

COLUBER RHODORACHIS; LEPTOTYPHLOPS MACRORHYNCHUS;

EID: 0036698893     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2002.10637925     Document Type: Article

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