Courtship and copulation in the Grand Canyon rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis abyssus

Herpetological Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-112

  Reed, Robert N ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS ABYSSUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037827007     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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