Hidden species diversity of Australian burrowing snakes (Ramphotyphlops)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 427-441

  Marin, Julie ^a   Donnellan, Stephen C ^b,c   Hedges, S Blair ^d   Puillandre, Nicolas ^a   Aplin, Ken P ^e   Doughty, Paul ^f   Hutchinson, Mark N ^b   Couloux, Arnaud ^g   Vidal, Nicolas ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

Cryptic; Evolution; Integrative taxonomy; Scolecophidia; Speciation.

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; CYTOCHROME; DATA SET; EVOLUTION; SNAKE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

RAMPHOTYPHLOPS; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84883784781     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12132     Document Type: Article

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