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First Record of the Marine File Snake Acrochordus granulatus (Squamata: Acrochordidae) from Japan Based on the Specimen of the Third Higher School

  • 1. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan E-mail: k.takata013@gmail.com & Corresponding author
  • 2. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan E-mail: k.takata013@gmail.com
  • 3. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan E-mail: k.takata013@gmail.com & Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
  • 4. The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

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Takata, Kento, Shen, Yanpeng, Nishikawa, Kanto, Motokawa, Masaharu (2023): First Record of the Marine File Snake Acrochordus granulatus (Squamata: Acrochordidae) from Japan Based on the Specimen of the Third Higher School. Species Diversity 28 (1): 1-4, DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.28.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.28.1

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