A new species of dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Southeast Asia

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1394, 2007, Pages 25-45

  Vogel, Gernot ^a   Van Rooijen, Johan ^b  

^a Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dendrelaphis formosus, dendrelaphis humayuni, Southeast Asia; Serpentes: Colubridae: Dendrelaphis: Dendrelaphis kopsteini sp. nov, dendrelaphis cyanochloris

Indexed keywords

COLUBRIDAE; DENDRELAPHIS; SERPENTES;

EID: 33846687981     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1394.1.2     Document Type: Article

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