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RE: Thank goodness for phylogenetics

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Posted by: WW at Fri Mar 10 01:17:40 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by WW ]  
   

Fact is, even any morphological analysis (as opposed to eyeballing it and saying "yup, looks like a viper" will place Acanthophis firmly among the elapids. There are numerous anatomical characters which support this absolutely unequivocally. This is not based on any research we have done, it comes from any source that has ever studied elapid interrelationships. The evidence is simply overwhelming.

The chances of Acanthophis being a "misclassified" viper are about the same as the chances of a dolphin being a "misclassified" fish.

Cheers,

WW
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