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Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines

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  • 1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045;
  • 2. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118. * Corresponding author; Email: jweine2@gmail.com

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Weinell, Jeffrey L., Hooper, Errol, Leviton, Alan E., Brown, Rafe M. (2019): Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66 (1): 1-49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512680

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