Philippine Burrowing Snake Species Discovered In University Collection
Reptiles Magazine Levitonius mirus is endemic to Leyte and Samar Islands in the Southeast Asian nation. December 24, 2020 Jeff Weinell, a KU graduate research assistant at the Biodiversity Institute, is lead author of a paper describing Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake as both a new genus and a new species, in the peer-reviewed journal Copeia. Photo by University of Kansas A subterranean snake that was collected in the Philippines in 2006 and 2007 was misidentified in the field and spent more than 1...
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