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dc.contributor.authorDas, S
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, P
dc.contributor.authorRoy, S
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, S
dc.contributor.authorPramanick, K
dc.contributor.authorBiswas, A
dc.contributor.authorRaha, S
dc.contributor.editorFritz, Uen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-21T13:48:40Z
dc.date.available2019-08-21T13:48:40Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-15
dc.date.submitted2019-08-19
dc.identifier.citationDas, S., Campbell, P. D., Roy, S., Mukherjee, S., Pramanick, K., Biswas, A., Raha, S. (2019). Cranial osteology and molecular phylogeny 
of Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802) (Colubridae: Serpentes). Vertebrate Zoology, 69(3): 311-325. https://doi.org/10.26049/VZ69-3-2019-04en_US
dc.identifier.issn1864-5755
dc.identifier.doi10.26049/VZ69-3-2019-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10141/622561
dc.description.abstractDescriptive accounts of the cranial osteology of snakes is important for systematics, functional morphology and also, to some extent, palaeontology. In the present study, we describe the skull of Argyrogena fasciolata, a south Asian colubrid snake, in detail. Bones of the snout unit of this snake are adapted for a fossorial mode of life whereas the braincase lacks any adaptations related to such an existence. We also compared its skull with other snakes belonging to sixteen other genera which together form the large clade containing Afrotropical, Palaearctic and Saharo-Arabian racers/whip snakes. The comparison shows that the cranium of A. fasciolata bears more similarity with that of Platyceps spp, differing mostly in three characteristics pertaining to premaxilla, nasal and pterygoid bones, than it does with crania of other genera. This suggests a closer relationship between those two genera. We also performed molecular phylogenetic analyses on three mitochondrial loci using Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference optimality criteria. The resultant phylogenies indeed recover A. fasciolata as sister to Platyceps spp.en_US
dc.publisherMuseum of Zoology, Dresden (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung)en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://www.senckenberg.de/vertebrate-zoologyen_US
dc.rightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectArgyrogena, Skull, Molecular phylogeny, Colubridae, Systematics, Platyceps.en_US
dc.titleCranial osteology and molecular phylogeny of Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802) (Colubridae: Serpentes)en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn2625-8498
dc.identifier.journalVertebrate Zoologyen_US
dc.identifier.volume69en_US
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage311 - 325en_US
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elements.import.authorDas, Sen_US
elements.import.authorCampbell, Pen_US
elements.import.authorRoy, Sen_US
elements.import.authorMukherjee, Sen_US
elements.import.authorPramanick, Ken_US
elements.import.authorBiswas, Aen_US
elements.import.authorRaha, Sen_US
dc.description.nhmPublished by Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. The journal is published in parallel in a print version and an online version according to the Creative Commons Licence. The attached file is the published pdf.en_US
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dc.subject.nhmArgyrogenaen_US
dc.subject.nhmSkullen_US
dc.subject.nhmMolecular phylogenyen_US
dc.subject.nhmColubridaeen_US
dc.subject.nhmSystematicsen_US
dc.subject.nhmPlatycepsen_US
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