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A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant by Daniel Jablonski; Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior; Evgeniy Simonov; Katarína Šoltys; Shai Meiri is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant about?
The genus __Elaphe__ Fitzinger, 1833 includes 17 species of charismatic, large-sized, non-venomous, Eurasian snakes. In the Western Palearctic, the genus is represented by three species from the __Elaphe quatuorlineata__ group ranging from the Apennine peninsula to Central Asia. The southernmost population of this group is distributed in the mountains of the Southern Levant, with more than 400 km gap to other __Elaphe__ populations. This population has been known to science for only 50 years and is virtually unstudied due to its extreme rarity. We studied these snakes’ morphological and genetic variation from the three countries where they are known to occur, i.e., Israel (Hermon, the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights), Lebanon, and Syria. We used nine mitochondrial and nuclear genes, complete mitogenome sequences, and a comprehensive morphological examination including published data, our own field observations, and museum specimens, to study its relationship to other species in the group. The three currently recognized species of the group (__E__. __quatuorlineata__, __E__. __sauromates__, __E__. __urartica__), and the Levant population, form four deeply divergent, strongly suppor
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- Author
- Daniel Jablonski; Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior; Evgeniy Simonov; Katarína Šoltys; Shai Meiri
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)