>>Thanks a lot for helping me out!
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>>So you are saying that:
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>>a-Death Adder genetics were compared with marine and terrestrial Australian elapids and found to be very similar.

Nothing to do with similarity, everything to do with history of descent. All the evidence, genetic and morphological, places the death adders deep within the elapid radiation.

>>b-Elapids and Vipers are distinct groups.

Very much so.

>>c-Due to a and b and due to the fact that vipers never made into Australia, evolutionary speaking, death adders can not be Vipers.

Nothing to do with whether vipers made it to Aus - if death adders were vipers, then obviously that statement would be wrong anyway. But a and b together clearly indicate that death adders are elapids, not vipers.

To use an analogy: my home village is Holm, in the state of Schleswig Holstein, which is in Germany, which in turn is in Europe.

The fact that Holm does not feature on a wall map of the world does not mean that I now need to worry about whether it might be in Africa after all.

Cheers,

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