Diversity of snakes from the Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1969-1978

  Abyerami, S ^a   Sivashanthini, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diversity; Jaffna; Snakes; Venomous

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAKE; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALS; COLOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAKES; SRI LANKA;

SERPENTES;

EID: 57649217468     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2008.1969.1978     Document Type: Article

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