Hello,
JSB> There! How about that??? Your Rhacodactylus, Naultinus, and Nephrurus are
JSB> in with the "legless" Flap-foot's!!!!
Et tu, Jon Boone? Dr. Kluge's paper, while not holy scripture, sure
has some good points in it. I particularly like the possibility he
raises that the Diplodactylini (Diplodactylus, Oedura, etc...) and
Pygopodinae may be more closely
related to each other than the Diplodactylini is to the
Carphodactylini (Nephrurus, Rhacodactylus, Naultinus, et al). Wow!
How the pygopids fit within the Gekkota will be an unresolved issue
for a while but it is clear that they are Gekkotans and that they are
allied (somehow) with the Diplodactylini and the Carphodactylini.
As to good pygopid literature... beg, borrow, or steal the following:
Garth Underwood. 1957. On lizards of the family Pygopodidea...J.Morph
100(2):207-268
Arnold Kluge. 1974. A taxonomic revision of the lizard family
Pygopodidae. Misc. Pub. U Mich No. 147.
Arnold Kluge. 1976. Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard family
Pygopodidae: an evolution of theory, methods and data. Misc. Pub. U
Mich No. 152.
Allen Greer. 1989. The Biology and Evolution of Australian Lizards.
Surry Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, NSW. 264 pp.
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Best regards,
Tony mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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