| molecular systematics of the african snake family lamprophiidae fitzinger, 1843 (serpentes: elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera lamprophis fitzinger 1843 and mehelya csiki 1903. | the snake family lamprophiidae fitzinger (serpentes: elapoidea) is a putatively late eocene radiation of nocturnal snakes endemic to the african continent. it incorporates many of the most characteristic and prolific of africa's non-venomous snake species, including the widespread type genus lamprophis fitzinger, 1843 (house snakes). we used approximately 2500 bases of mitochondrial and nuclear dna sequence data from 28 (41%) of the approximately 68 recognised lamprophiid species in nine of the ... | 2011 | 21095234 |