| relict snakes of north america and their relationships within caenophidia, using likelihood-based bayesian methods on mitochondrial sequences. | this paper focuses on the phylogenetic relationships of eight north american caenophidian snake species (carphophis amoena, contia tenuis, diadophis punctatus, farancia abacura, farancia erytrogramma, heterodon nasicus, heterodon platyrhinos, and heterodon simus) whose phylogenetic relationships remain controversial. past studies have referred to these "relict" north american snakes either as colubrid, or as neotropical dipsadids and/or xenodontids. based on mitochondrial dna ribosomal gene sequ ... | 2004 | 15223038 |