Male-male ritual combat in the colubrid snake Chironius bicarinatus from the Atlantic Forest, southeastern Brazil

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 528-533

  Almeida Santos, Selma M ^a,b   Marques, Otavio A V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SNAKE;

BRAZIL;

AMPHIBIA; CHIRONIUS; COLUBRIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037004443     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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