Notes on Typhlops diardi Schlegel, 1839, with Description of a New Subspecies (Squamata, Serpentes, Scolecophidia)

Pakistan Journal of Zoology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-221

  Khan, Muhammad Sharif ^a  

^a Herpetological Laboratory   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Description; Ecology; New subspecies; Typhlops diardi platyventris; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041296979     PISSN: 00309923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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