Taxonomy of the South American dwarf boas of the genus Tropidophis bibron, 1840, with the description of two new species from the Atlantic Forest (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae)

Herpetological Monographs

Volumn , Issue 26, 2012, Pages 80-121

  Curcio, Felipe Franco ^a   Sales Nunes, Pedro M ^a   Argolo, Antônio Jorge Suzart ^b   Skuk, Gabriel ^c   Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

External morphology; Geographic variation; Hemipenis; Mainland tropidophiids; Revision; Snakes

Indexed keywords

SERPENTES; TROPIDOPHIIDAE; TROPIDOPHIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870705991     PISSN: 07331347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-10-00008.1     Document Type: Article

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