Snake phylogeny based on osteology, soft anatomy and ecology

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 333-401

  Lee, Michael S Y ^a   Scanlon, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Feeding; Morphology; Phylogeny; Serpentes; Snakes; Squamates

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BONE STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY;

ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

BOA (GENUS); COLUBROIDEA; HENOPHIDIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TROPIDOPHIIDAE;

EID: 0036668740     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102005924     Document Type: Review

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