Unravelling a tangle of Mexican serpents: A systematic revision of highland pitvipers

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 943-958

  Jadin, Robert C ^a,b   Smith, Eric N ^b   Campbell, Jonathan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Cerrophidion; Hemipenes; Morphology; New genus; Ophryacus; Parsimony; Phylogeny; Snake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856357480     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00748.x     Document Type: Article

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