Dead snakes and their stories: morphological anomalies, asymmetries and scars of road killed Dolichophis caspius (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Romania
We analysed several morphological characters of 84 road-killed D. caspius individuals from different areas of southern Romania. Most presented asymmetries in the total number of temporal scales, the temporal row and the periocular and labial scales. Almost a quarter of snakes had scars, located espe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2020-05-01
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Series: | Herpetozoa |
Online Access: | https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/51338/download/pdf/ |