Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Spotlight on #MudSnakes: Study unveils evolutionary secrets of enigmatic #snake family from Southeastern Asia https://phys.org/news/2023-09-spotlight-mud-snakes-unveils-evolutionary.html
#Phylogenomics of Fresh and Formalin Specimens Resolves the #Systematics of Old World Mud #Snakes (#Serpentes: #Homalopsidae) and Expands Biogeographic Inference https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/9393
"Species of #MudSnake can inhabit fresh, #brackish or saltwater coastal and inland areas, mostly sleeping by day and munching on #fish and #crustaceans by night."
Spotlight on mud snakes: Study unveils evolutionary secrets of enigmatic snake family from Southeastern Asia
A new University of Kansas genomic investigation of a group of unheralded but unique "mud snakes" from Southeast Asia is rewriting the evolutionary history of this family, named the Homalopsidae. The results just were published in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists.