>>Sorry I thought Eryx was the calabar boa. I did not realize Charina Reinhardtii was the one you were talking about. Now I see your point. I am not as familiar with the taxa as I am with phylogenetics.>>

"Charina reinhardtii" is now Calabaria reinhardtii. As I predicted in the past, Kluge's morphological analaysis was in error, as evidenced by mtDNA data. As mtDNA and other molecular data become more widely available, most of the taxonomic proposals made using morphology based cladistic analyses will likely be overturned.

Only where DNA data is unavailable, e.g. in paleontology, can cladists be dogmatic about the results of their analyses. One of the most dogmatic groups of cladists are the paleontologists, who continue to insist that birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs, even in the face of a large volume of opposing developmental, stratigraphic, biophysical and comparative anatomical data.

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