A case of communal nesting in the Neotropical snake Sibynomorphus mikanii (Serpentes, Colubridae)
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Received 15 August 2005. Accepted 21 November 2005. Distributed December 2005. Abstract Body size, reproductive biology and abundance of the rare pseudoboini snakes genera Clelia and Boiruna (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Brazil. Pseudoboini snakes of the genera Clelia and Boiruna are apparently rare in nature and certainly rare in collections. This work presents data on body size, reproduction and...
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