Radiation within the advanced snakes (Caenophidia) with special emphasis on African opistoglyph colubrids, based on mitochondrial sequence data

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-114

  Gravlund, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

African snakes; Boiginae; Colubridae; Dasypeltis; Elapidae; Maxillary dentition; Retina; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE;

ACROCHORDUS; ATRACTASPIS; BUHOMA; CAENOPHIDIA; GEODIPSAS; LAMPROPHIS; LYCODONOMORPHUS; MEHELYA;

EID: 0035118410     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2000.0495     Document Type: Article

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