Evolution of coloration, urotomy and coral snake mimicry in the snake genus Scaphiodontophis (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-194

  Savage, Jay M ^a   Seowinski, Joseph B ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Distribution; Ontogeny; Scutellation; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544364034     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01833.x     Document Type: Article

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