Food habits of the glossy snake, Arizona elegans, with comparisons to the diet of sympatric long-nosed snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Rodríguez Robles, Javier A ^a   Bell, Christopher J ^a,b   Greene, Harry W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIZONA ELEGANS; AVES; HETEROMYIDAE; MAMMALIA; PHRYNOSOMATINAE; RHINOCHEILUS LECONTEI; RODENTIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345253854     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565546     Document Type: Article

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