The brahminy blind snake, ramphotyphlops braminus (daudin, 1803), a newcomer to iran (ophidia: typhlopidae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 135-137

  Afroosheh, Mohadeseh ^a   Rastegar Pouyani, Nasrullah ^a   Rajabizadeh, Mehdi ^b   Kami, Haji Gholi ^c  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b International Center for Science High Technology and Environmental Sciences   (Iran)

^c GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMENSALISM; FOSSIL RECORD; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; SNAKE; TERMITE;

AHWAZ; ARABIAN SEA; BANDAR ABBAS; HORMOZGAN; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; KHUZESTAN; PERSIAN GULF; QESHM;

RAMPHOTYPHLOPS BRAMINUS; SERPENTES; TYPHLOPIDAE;

EID: 77956381438     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2010.10638425     Document Type: Article

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