Sperm Storage in Two Species of Snakes: Asian Pit Vipers Trimeresurus albolabris (Gray, 1842) and Trimeresurus erythrurus (Cantor, 1839), Bred at the Leningrad Zoo Terrarium

E. R. Kamelin, Yu. A. Lukin

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Viperidae; Serpentes; Trimeresurus albolabris; Trimeresurus erythrurus; breeding; sperm storage

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2005-12-0-158-160

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