Taxonomic changes and toxinology: Systematic revisions of the asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex)

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 399-406

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ASIA; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SNAKE; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0343010455     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00139-5     Document Type: Review

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