Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of caecilians from Southeast Asia (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae), with special reference to high cryptic species diversity in Sundaland

• Main Authors: Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M., Yong, Hoi Sen, Ahmad, N., Yambun, P., Belabut, Daicus Martin, Sudin, A., Hamidy, A., Orlov, N.L., Ota, H., Yoshikawa, N., Tominaga, A., Shimada, T.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QH Natural history
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/13279/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579031200070X; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.017

We investigated the phylogenetic relationships and estimated the history of species diversification and character evolution in two ichthyophiid genera: Caudacaecilia and Ichthyophis. We estimated the phylogenetic relationships of 67 samples from 33 localities in Southeast Asia from 3840-bp sequences...