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Morphological description of a new specimen of Herpetoreas burbrinki Guo et al 2014 (Serpentes: Colubridae)

  • 1. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China & lifang_peng@ahnu.edu.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8668-6397
  • 2. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China & snakeman@ahnu.edu.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6786-8523
  • 3. Department of Herpetology, The American Museum of Natural History, New York NY 10024, USA.
  • 4. Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China & yong_zhang@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-5202
  • 5. College of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin 644007, China.
  • 6. School of Ecology and Environment, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China

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Peng, Lifang, Huang, Song, Burbrink, Frank T., Zhang, Yong, Guo, Peng, Wu, Hailong (2021): Morphological description of a new specimen of Herpetoreas burbrinki Guo et al 2014 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Zootaxa 5039 (3): 433-439, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.3.8

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