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SUBMITTER: Mirza ZA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4774991 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mirza Zeeshan A ZA Vyas Raju R Patel Harshil H Maheta Jaydeep J Sanap Rajesh V RV
PloS one 20160302 3
A distinctive early Miocene-divergent lineage of Old world racer snakes is described as a new genus and species based on three specimens collected from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Wallaceophis gen. et. gujaratenesis sp. nov. is a members of a clade of old world racers. The monotypic genus represents a distinct lineage among old world racers is recovered as a sister taxa to Lytorhynchus based on ~3047bp of combined nuclear (cmos) and mitochondrial molecular data (cytb, ND4, 12s, 16s). Th ...[more]