Identification of molluscan prey from feces of Iwasaki's slug snake, Pareas iwasakii

Herpetological Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-176

  Hoso, Masaki ^a   Hori, Michio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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