Frequency of tail breakage of the Northern Watersnake, Nerodia sipedon sipedon

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 435-437

  Bowen, Kenneth D ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaver Archipelago; Michigan; Nerodia sipedon sipedon; Northern Watersnake; Tail breakage

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INJURY; SNAKE;

BEAVER ISLAND; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NERODIA SIPEDON SIPEDON; SERPENTES;

EID: 27644478271     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v118i3.17     Document Type: Article

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