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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Main Authors: George-Adelin Ile, Alexandra-Roxana-Maria Maier, Achim-Mircea Cadar, Severus-Daniel Covaciu-Marcov, Sára Ferenți
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-05-01
Series:Herpetozoa
Online Access:https://herpetozoa.pensoft.net/article/51338/download/pdf/