Feeding Strategies in Marine Snakes: An Analysis of Evolutionary, Morphological, Behavioral and Ecological Relationships

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Integrative and Comparative Biology

• Publication date

  1983-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/ICB/23.2.411
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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