Relationships and zoogeography of the viperine snakes, family Viperidae [by] Hymen Marx and George B. Rabb.

Marx, Hymen.; Rabb, George B.

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“…Within Viperidae the basal position of the genus Causus has been suggested by many workers (e.g., Haas, 1952;Bourgeois, 1968;Marx & Rabb, 1965, and Groombridge, 1984 on the basis of comparative morphology of the venom apparatus and head circulatory systems. Azemiops is consistently placed as the sister-group of the Crotalinae in most molecular studies (Cadle, 1992;Knight & Mindell, 1993;Parkinson, 1999).…”

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Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

Zaher¹,

Grazziotin²,

Cadle³

et al. 2009

Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

Zaher¹,

Grazziotin²,

Cadle³

et al. 2009

Pap. Avulsos Zool. (São Paulo)

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“…As expected, these species are all members of the family Colubridae. In our earlier analysis of characters, the large polymorphic family Colubridae was set up as the "ancestral" or out-group (Marx and Rabb, 1970). Therefore sorting by use of primitive character states would produce taxa of Colubridae.…”

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“…To use a noncolubrid example, the crotalines appear in North America in the late Miocene. Their origin is almost certainly in southeast Asia (Brattstrom, 1964;Marx and Rabb, 1965). Despite an impressive radiation in arid parts of North America and in the American tropics, differentiation has apparently only been at the species and species group level since the Miocene.…”

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“…The many individuals and institutions who helped in the data gathering stage are noted elsewhere (Marx andRabb, 1970, 1972). We are grateful to Robert Inger for a reading of the original manuscript and to Adelle Miller and Marilyn Belka for patient typing.…”

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“…Our methodology and rationale for the analysis of characters and the taxonomic sample employed are recorded elsewhere EVOLUTION 27:69-83. March 1973 69 (Marx and Rabb, 1970;. Basically we attempted to determine the primitive and derived states for each character, using relative frequencies of occurrences in the "ancestral" or out-group as the primary basis for decisions (see also p. 74).…”

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Major Ecological and Geographic Patterns in the Evolution of Colubroid Snakes

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Radiation within the advanced snakes (Caenophidia) with special emphasis on African opistoglyph colubrids, based on mitochondrial sequence data

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A parsimony analysis of parts of the mitochondrial genes 12s and 16s (722 base pairs) from 43 species of the advanced snakes (Caenophidia) resulted in two most parsimonious topologies. Based on a strict consensus of these the following objectives were addressed: (1) Which groupings of caenophidian taxa can be recognized? (2) Is Acrochordus sister group to, or included in, Caenophidia? (3) Are boigine snakes (sensu stricto) a monophyletic grouping and where do these taxa belong in a broader caenophidian context? (4) What are the systematic affinities of the African egg-eating genus Dasypeltis? The phylogeny was then used to discuss: (5) the evolution of the posterior maxillary dentition and the composition of the retinal visual cells. The results reveal that, when using Boa constrictor as outgroup, Acmchordus is the sistergroup to the remainder of the ingroup, and a further eight clades are defined. Five genera of elapids did not appear to be monophyletic and a number of colubrids (sensu lato) such as Mehelya, Lycodonomorphus, Lampmphis, Atractaspis, and Buhoma (formerly Geodipsas), which have traditionally been problematic to place systematically, did not group with any of the larger clades. These taxa are together with the elapids representatives of very early radiations in the evolution of the Advanced snakes. The homalopsine Enhydris enhydris appears as a sistergroup to the viperine clade (Clade 1). When plotted onto the topology the posterior maxillary dentition appear to express three, maybe four, independent origins of the Opistoglyph State. The retinal evolution also appeared very complex. The suggested very primitive placing of the Boigine snakes (sensu stricto) due t o their lack of double cones in the retina of the eye was not supported here; instead the sequence data suggests this observation to be the result of a secondary loss.

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Relationships and zoogeography of the viperine snakes, family Viperidae [by] Hymen Marx and George B. Rabb.

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

Major Ecological and Geographic Patterns in the Evolution of Colubroid Snakes

Radiation within the advanced snakes (Caenophidia) with special emphasis on African opistoglyph colubrids, based on mitochondrial sequence data

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