Can ExoticToad Toxins Kill Native Ryukyu Snakes? Experimental and Field Observations on the Effects of Bufo marinus Toxins on Dinodon rufozonatum walli

Current Herpetology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-27

  Kidera, Noriko ^a   Ota, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bufo mainus; Conservation; Invasive species; Toxic prey

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149482848     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3105/1345-5834(2008)27[23:CETTKN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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