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Volume of eggs in the clutches of Grass snake Natrix natrix and Dice snake N. tessellata: error correction
| Klenina Anastasiya Aleksandrovna | Institute of Ecology of Volga river Basin of Russian Academy of Science, 445003, Russia, Samara region, Togliatti , Komzina st., 10, colubrida@yandex.ru |
| Bakiev Andrey Gennadievich | Institute of Ecology of Volga river Basin of Russian Academy of Science, 445003, Russia, Samara region, Togliatti , Komzina st., 10, herpetology@list.ru |
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Keywords: Natrix natrix Natrix tessellata clutch volume of an egg |
Summary: The authors have made a mistake in calculating the volume of eggs in the clutches of snake family Natrix. In this article we correct the error. As a result, it was revealed, that the volume of eggs positively correlates with a female length and its mass, as well as with the quantity of eggs in the clutches. There is a positive correlation between the characteristics of newborn snakes (length and mass) and the volume of eggs, from which they hatched. © Petrozavodsk State University |
Received on: 24 November 2015 Published on: 19 January 2016 | |
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