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Taxonomy of the family Homalopsidae Biodiversity of the family Homalopsidae

Bibliography of the family
Homalopsidae
(Australasian Mud Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes)

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Alfaro, M.E.; Karns, D.R.; Voris, H.K.; Brock, C.D.; Stuart, B.L. 2008. Phylogeny, evolutionary history, and biogeography of Oriental-Australian rear-fanged Water Snakes (Colubroidea: Homalopsidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46(2): 576-593.

Brischoux, F.; Tingley, R.; Shine, R.; Lillywhite, H.B. 2012. Salinity influences the distribution of marine snakes: implications for evolutionary transitions to marine life. Ecography 35(11): 994-1003.

Fabre, A.C.; Bickford, D.; Segall, M.; Herrel, A. 2016. The impact of diet, habitat use, and behaviour on head shape evolution in homalopsid snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(3): 634-647.

Gyi, K.K. 1970. A revision of colubrid snakes of the subfamily Homalopsinae. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural History 20(2): 47-223.

Handschuh, M.; Mueller, J. 2008. Wassertrugnattern in Kambodscha. ZGAP Mitteilungen 24(2): 6-8.

Lu, S.Q.; Pang, J.; Yang, D.T. 2006. Morphological phylogeny of the Water Snake subfamily Homalopsinae (Serpent: Colubridae). Zoological Research 27(4): 363-366.

Mori, A. 1998. Prey-handling behavior of three species of homalopsine snakes: features associated with piscivory and Duvernoy's glands. Journal of Herpetology 32(1): 40-50.

Murphy, J.C. 2007. Homalopsid snakes, evolution in the mud. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 249 pp.

Murphy, J.C.; Voris, H.K. 2014. A checklist and key to the homalopsid snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the description of new genera. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences 8: 1-43.

Voris, H.K.; Alfaro, M.E.; Karns, D.R.; Starnes, G.L.; Thompson, E.; Murphy, J.C. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of the Oriental-Australian rear-fanged Water Snakes (Colubridae: Homalopsinae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia 2002(4): 906-915.

Voris, H.K.; Murphy, J.C. 2002. The prey and predators of homalopsine snakes. Journal of Natural History 36(13): 1621-1632.

Zaher, H.; Grazziotin, F.G.; Cadle, J.E.; Murphy, R.W.; Moura-Leite, J.C. de; Bonatto, S.L. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (Sao Paulo) 49(11): 115-153.