The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3484, 2012, Pages 1-34

  Murphy, John C ^a,b   Voris, Harold K ^a   Karns, Daryl R ^a,b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b HANOVER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic snakes; Australia; Coastal distribution; New species; Nomenclature; Southeast Asia; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CERBERUS; CERBERUS AUSTRALIS; CERBERUS MICROLEPIS; CERBERUS RYNCHOPS; HOMALOPSINAE; HOMALOPSIS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84866377484     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3484.1.1     Document Type: Article

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