>>Heise et al.'s findings contrast sharply with Fry et al.'s "best guess" tree. Heise et al. find Atractaspis to be the sister taxon of Bungarus, an elapid. Fry et al. has Atractaspis as the sister taxon to Leioheterodon madagascariensis, and these two are in turn sister taxa to Psammophis mossambicus.

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>>The discrepancy in these two hypotheses is large and irreconcilable. Either one or both must be wrong. Personally I think Fry et al.'s tree is wrong.

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