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Posted by: RSNewton at Sun Sep 21 12:14:10 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RSNewton ] It has been more than a quarter of a century since Minton published his paper. If there is actual evidence of a polyphyletic Elaphe within it or within any of the papers cited by Utiger et al., Elaphe would have been dismantled a long time ago. Dowling, who is one of the leading authorities on this genus, would not have tolerated polyphyletic taxa, and neither would Dessauer or Minton or for that matter any self-respecting systematist of any school. The fact that Elaphe has survived as a valid genus is itself prima facie evidence that the studies cited by Utiger et al. do not contain scientific evidence that Elaphe is polyphyletic. | ||
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