Ecology of Oriental-Australian rear-fanged water snakes (Colubridae: Homalopsinae) in the Pasir Ris Park mangrove forest, Singapore

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 487-498

  Karns, Daryl R ^a   Voris, Harold K ^b   Goodwin, Thomas G ^a  

^a HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantoria; Cerberus; Fordonia; Gerarda; Homalopsinae; Lobster mounds; Mangroves; Pasir Ris; Thalassina; Water snakes

Indexed keywords

ALPHEIDAE; CANTORIA; CANTORIA VIOLACEA; CERBERUS; CERBERUS RYNCHOPS; COLUBRIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FORDONIA; FORDONIA LEUCOBALIA; GERARDA; GERARDA PREVOSTIANA; HOMALOPSINAE; LOBSTER; NERODIA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; RYNCHOPS; SERPENTES; THALASSINA; THALASSINA ANOMALA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042665811     PISSN: 02172445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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