The phylogenetic affinities of the mysterious anguilliform genera Coloconger and Thalassenchelys as supported by mtDNA sequences

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2007, Pages 959-966

  López, J Andrés ^a   Westneat, Mark W ^b   Hanel, Reinhold ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; EEL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ANGUILLIDAE; ANGUILLIFORMES; COLOCONGER; COLOCONGRIDAE; CONGRIDAE; DERICHTHYIDAE; MURAENESOCIDAE; MURAENINAE; NEMICHTHYIDAE; NETTASTOMATIDAE; OPHICHTHIDAE; OPHICHTHUS; SERRIVOMERIDAE; THALASSENCHELYS;

EID: 37849037978     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[959:TPAOTM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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