Phylogeny of snakes (Serpentes): Combining morphological and molecular data in likelihood, Bayesian and parsimony analyses
@article{Lee2007PhylogenyOS,
title={Phylogeny of snakes (Serpentes): Combining morphological and molecular data in likelihood, Bayesian and parsimony analyses},
author={Michael S. Y. Lee and Andrew F. Hugall and Robin. Lawson and John D. Scanlon},
journal={Systematics and Biodiversity},
year={2007},
volume={5},
pages={371 - 389},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:85912034}
}The combined analyses resulted in a novel and stable position of uropeltines and cylindrophiines as the second‐most basal clade of alethinophidians; the limbed marine pachyophiids, along with Dinilysia and Wonambi, were always basal to all living snakes.
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