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The First Records Of Albinism In Several Colubridae Species In Ukraine

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  • 1. І. І. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, & Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR7178, Strasbourg, F-67000, France
  • 2. Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore, vul. O. Kobylianskoi, 28, Chernivtsi,
  • 3. Lviv Branch of the Ukrainian Herpetological Society, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 4. І. І. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, & Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR7178, Strasbourg, F-67000, France & Department of Ecology Daugavpils University Daugavpils, Latvia
  • 5. Uzhanskyi National Nature Park, vul. Rybarska, 18, Velykyi Bereznyi,
  • 6. Lviv Branch of the Ukrainian Herpetological Society, Lviv, Ukraine & State Enterprise "Kalush Test Experimental Plant of Surface Chemistry Institute of National Academy of Science of Ukraine", Kalush-11, А-8, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, 77311 Ukraine
  • 7. Department of Ecology Daugavpils University Daugavpils, Latvia
  • 8. Pryazovsky National Nature Park, vul. Gareth Jones 15, Kyiv, 04119 Ukraine
  • 9. Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Joštova 10, Brno, 602 00, Czech Republic & Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1665/1 Brno, 613 00, Czech Republic
  • 10. Educational and Scientific Center "Institute of Biology and Medicine",
  • 11. Strict Nature Reserve "Roztochya", Ivano-Frankove, Sichovykh Striltsiv st., 7,
  • 12. Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR7178, Strasbourg, F-67000, France

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Marushchak, O. Yu., Smirnov, N. A., Hrynchyshyn, T. Yu., Nekrasova, O. D., Koval, N. P., Horbey, O. Ya., Bakun, V. A., Pupins, M., Mykytynets, H. I., Vlašin, M., Shorokhov, O. S., Shevchuk, V. O., Khomyn, I. G., Georges, J.-Y. (2025): The First Records Of Albinism In Several Colubridae Species In Ukraine. Zoodiversity 59 (6): 519-532, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2025.06.519, URL: https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2025.06.519

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