Feeding characteristics of a Japanese pitviper, ovophis okinavensis, on okinawa Island: Seasonally biased but ontogenetically stable exploitation on small frogs

Current Herpetology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-52

  Mori, Akira ^a   Toda, Mamoru ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crotalinae; Ontogenetic dietary shift; Ovophis okinavensis; Prey size; Sexual difference

Indexed keywords

ANURA; AVES; CROTALINAE; MAMMALIA; OVOPHIS OKINAVENSIS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 80052807426     PISSN: 13455834     EISSN: 18811019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5358/hsj.30.41     Document Type: Article

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