Redescription and systematics of Trimeresurus cornutus (Serpentes: Viperidae) based on morphology and molecular data

Herpetologica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-221

  Herrmann, Hans Werner ^a   Ziegler, Thomas ^b   Malhotra, Anita ^c   Thorpe, Roger S ^c   Parkinson, Christopher L ^d  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b AG Zoologischer Garten Köln Kölner zoo   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Habitat; Hemipenial morphology; Molecular systematics; Protobothrops; Redescription; Serpentes; Trimeresurus cornutus; Vietnam; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; PROTOBOTHROPS; PROTOBOTHROPS CORNUTUS; PROTOBOTHROPS JERDONII; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; TRIMERESURUS; TRIMERESURUS CORNUTUS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 2442436766     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/03-37     Document Type: Article

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