A New Miocene-Divergent Lineage of Old World Racer Snake from India

Zeeshan A Mirza1, Raju Vyas2, Harshil Patel3

  • 1National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India.

Plos One
|March 3, 2016
PubMed

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