Valid or not? Yunnan mountain snake Plagiopholis unipostocularis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxenodontinae)

Guang Hui Zhong1, Wen De Chen2, Qin Liu3

  • 1College of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin 644007, China College of Tourism and Urban-Rural Planning, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China; Email: unknown.

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|December 2, 2015
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