Oviposition and Early Growth of Unfed Neonates of the Mountain Wolf Snake Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati (Squamata: Colubridae)

Current Herpetology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-51

  Norval, Gerrut ^a   Mao, Jean Jay ^b   Chu, Hsin Pin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^b National I Lan University   (China)

^c Taitung Animal Propagation Station   (China)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati; Neonate growth; Relative clutch mass

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649296218     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.26.49     Document Type: Article

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