Search Results - "Engelbrecht, Hanlie M"
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When to shed? Patterns and drivers of time to first ecdysis in snakes
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-08-2023)“…Time from birth or hatching to the first shed (postnatal ecdysis) in snakes ranges from about an hour to several weeks depending upon the species. We assessed…”
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Snakes on an African plain: the radiation of Crotaphopeltis and Philothamnus into open habitat (Serpentes: Colubridae)
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (06-08-2021)“…The African continent is comprised of several different biomes, although savanna is the most prevalent. The current heterogeneous landscape was formed through…”
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Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique’s sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians
Published in Zoosystematics and Evolution (01-01-2016)“…We carried out a survey of reptiles and amphibians within Afromontane forest and woodland slopes of three inselbergs in northern Mozambique (Mount Mabu, Mount…”
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Diversifying into the branches: Species boundaries in African green and bush snakes, Philothamnus (Serpentes: Colubridae)
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-01-2019)“…[Display omitted] •The colubrid Green and Bush Snakes of the genus Philothamnus are monophyletic.•Improved genetic and geographical sampling (14 of the 21…”
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Tracking the impact of Pliocene/Pleistocene sea level and climatic oscillations on the cladogenesis of the Cape legless skink, Acontias meleagris species complex, in South Africa
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-03-2013)“…AIM: To determine the geographical boundaries among cryptic lineages and examine the evolutionary drivers of cladogenesis within the Cape legless skink,…”
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Are Melanistic Populations of the Karoo Girdled Lizard, Karusasaurus polyzonus, Relics or Ecotypes? A Molecular Investigation
Published in African zoology (01-04-2011)“…It has been proposed that melanism in cordylids evolved in response to a single climatic event and that melanistic populations of Karusasaurus polyzonus are…”
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Systematics of the Thirteen-scaled Green Snake Philothamnus carinatus (Squamata: Colubridae), with the description of a cryptic new species from Central and East Africa
Published in African journal of herpetology (15-11-2023)“…Recent molecular phylogenies of African Green Snakes suggested the geographically widespread species Philothamnus carinatus includes at least two distinct…”
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Are melanistic populations of the Karoo girdled lizard, Karusasaurus polyzonus, relics or ecotypes? A molecular investigation : research article
Published in African zoology (01-04-2011)“…It has been proposed that melanism in cordylids evolved in response to a single climatic event and that melanistic populations of Karusasaurus polyzonus are…”
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Are melanistic populations of the Karoo girdled lizard, Karusasaurus polyzonus, relics or ecotypes? A molecular investigation
Published in African zoology (01-04-2011)“…It has been proposed that melanism in cordylids evolved in response to a single climatic event and that melanistic populations of Karusasaurus polyzonus are…”
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