A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma)

Herpetologica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-270

  Slowinski, Joseph B ^a   Wüster, Wolfgang ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Molecular phylogenetics; Multivariate morphometrics; Myanmar; Naja; Systematics

Indexed keywords

NAJA SIAMENSIS;

EID: 0343674058     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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