Additional taxonomic remarks on the genus pseudoleptodeira (Serpentes: Colubridae) and the phylogenetic placement of "p. uribei"

Herpetologica

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-110

  Reyes Velasco, Jacobo ^a   Mulcahy, Daniel G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colubridae; Leptodeira uribei; Mexico; Mitochondrial; Morphology; Nuclear; Pseudoleptodeira; Sequence data; Serpentes; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COLOR MORPH; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY;

COLUBRIDAE; HYPSIGLENA; LEPTODEIRA; LEPTODEIRA FRENATA; PSEUDOLEPTODEIRA; PSEUDOLEPTODEIRA LATIFASCIATA; SERPENTES;

EID: 77949563615     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/09-019.1     Document Type: Article

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