Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No. 3

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1123-1129

  Wüster, Wolfgang ^a   Golay, Philippe ^b   Warrell, David A ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fondation Culturelle Elapsoidea   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; SNAKE VENOMS; TERMINOLOGY;

ACANTHOPHIS; ANIMALIA; BITIS; ELAPSOIDEA; LACHESIS; PORTHIDIUM; SERPENTES; TRIMERESURUS; TROPIDOLAEMUS; VIPERA;

EID: 0344223468     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00248-7     Document Type: Article

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