Feeding ecology of the desert nightsnake, Hypsiglena torquata (Colubridae)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-100

  Rodríguez Robles, Javier A ^a   Mulcahy, Daniel G ^a,b   Greene, Harry W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

CNEMIDOPHORUS; COLEONYX; HYPSIGLENA TORQUATA; XANTUSIA;

EID: 0344820733     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447389     Document Type: Article

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