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Matt Campbell
at Thu Aug 7 11:17:37 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Matt Campbell ]
I would simply like to add that a previous paper published in 'The Russian Journal of Herpetology' looked at visceral organ topography as one way of separating the overblown Elaphe genus into several different new genera. That paper laid some of the groundwork for what appeared in the Utiger paper. Decent arguements were made in both papers and I support the splitting of the genus as Utiger has proposed it. Cladistics is a very fluid study. As new techniques become available our knowledge of various species relations to each other becomes more well known and through that, some of these relationships naturally have to be re-evaluated.
Matt Campbell
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- Pantherophis, a preliminary review - RSNewton, Tue Aug 5 00:29:14 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - jfirneno, Tue Aug 5 19:28:42 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - Terry Cox, Wed Aug 6 11:34:07 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - patricia sherman, Wed Aug 6 15:20:03 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - WW, Thu Aug 7 03:19:24 2003
RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - Matt Campbell, Thu Aug 7 11:17:37 2003
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