I've been studying the Daeth Adder and why it is in the Elapid family since it shows all features of a viper (ambush predator, stout body, angular head, viper like scales, nocturnal,ect) and in every item I read the only reason I found was,"vipers are absent from australia" which doesn't say much of anything but I don't know if the Death Adder has been changed to viperids though since all the research info says that it is still in Elapidae. Since a species is the only one of it's family on the island doesn't mean they should include it into the next family. I would like to hear other people's view on this and possibly some why I'm wrong/right.
Thanks and Sincerely,
Mark V. Leppin

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• Death Adders-Wrong Family? - WSHSmark, Sun Mar 5 00:00:37 2006
• Thank goodness for phylogenetics - Chance, Sun Mar 5 00:20:52 2006
• Yup... - SnakesAndStuff, Sun Mar 5 17:14:14 2006
• Convergent Evolution - Chance, Mon Mar 6 07:31:05 2006
• RE: Convergent Evolution - philodryas, Mon Mar 6 14:42:20 2006
• RE: Convergent Evolution - wshsmark, Mon Mar 6 19:16:01 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - wshsmark, Mon Mar 6 19:09:23 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - LarryF, Tue Mar 7 19:45:13 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - wshsmark, Wed Mar 8 18:20:25 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - Chance, Thu Mar 9 09:24:52 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - billstevenson, Thu Mar 9 09:57:45 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - WW, Fri Mar 10 01:17:40 2006
• Whew - Chance, Fri Mar 10 09:26:32 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - wshsmark, Fri Mar 10 16:17:55 2006
• RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics - Chance, Fri Mar 10 22:40:29 2006
• RE: Death Adders-Wrong Family? - phobos, Sun Mar 5 07:38:09 2006
• National Geographic.... - Senior, Tue Mar 7 11:25:32 2006
• RE: National Geographic.... - snake_girl85, Tue Mar 7 12:17:52 2006