Food habits and reproductive biology of the endemic melanesian elapids: Are tropical snakes really different?

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 238-247

  Shine, Richard ^a   Scott Keogh, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ASPIDOMORPHUS; ELAPIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MICROPECHIS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; SCINCIDAE; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TOXICOCALAMUS;

EID: 12644298656     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1565515     Document Type: Article

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