Revision of the middle-eastern dwarf-snakes commonly assigned to eirenis coronella (colubridae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-59

  Sivan, Naomi ^a   Werner, Yehudah L ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eirenis coronelloides; Fertile Crescent; Middle East; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; COLUBRIDAE; CORONELLA; EIRENIS; EIRENIS CORONELLOIDES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037929824     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2003.10637955     Document Type: Article

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