The re-evaluated conservation status of the mountain populations of the highly endangered Cyprus grass snake, Natrix natrix cypriaca (Hecht, 1930), with miscellaneous natural history notes

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Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Baier, Felix ^a   Wiedl, Hans Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Age structure; Akinesis; Colubridae; Cyprus; Mating; Population size; Sex ratio; Tail loss; Troodos mountains

Indexed keywords

COLUBRIDAE; NATRIX NATRIX; SERPENTES;

EID: 77449126407     PISSN: 00363375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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