Thought you guys would be interested in this - Our paper on the placement of Gonyophis (Rainbow tree snake) was published today. For those not in the know, this is an extremely rare but gorgeous snake species distributed in SE Asia (picture below), and we were absolutely delighted to be able to finally generate genetic data for this species. The paper explores the phylogenetic relationships between these taxa, spelling out the taxonomic problem that now occurs by placing Gonyophis, and the three possible taxonomic solutions that present themselves from our findings. We hope to convince you, in light of this new development, that the best current hypothesis for the closely related Gonyosoma/Gonyophis/Rhadinophis/Rhynchophis group is to use the genus name Gonyosoma for each species. Preview here: mapress/zootaxa/2014/f/z03881p548f.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:13:07 +0000
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