A new species of hognose pitviper, genus Porthidium, from the southwestern Pacific of Costa Rica (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 51, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 797-804

  Lamar, William W ^a   Sasa, Mahmood ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Central America; Costa Rica; Osa Peninsula; Porthidium nasutum; Porthidium porrasi

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COSTA RICA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMALIA; PORTHIDIUM; PORTHIDIUM NASUTUM; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 1842866215     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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