Bail(!j, R. M. ond C. Gans. 1998. 'liuo ~LPIII syr~Dran,chidfZ.~hes, Monopterus roseni Jrom eni insular India and M. dcsilvai from Sri L~nka. Orr. Pap. M~cs. Zool. Univ. Michigan 726:l-IS, 7Jigs. The swamp eels (Synbranchidae) of the Indian subcontinent arc summarized and two are tlcscribed as new species of Morcupterz~~. M. dr~ilvc~i from Sri Lanka, an rpigean species, has scales on the tail like other members of the Amphipnous group. It is a sm;~ll spccies with blotches on the body and is believed to be most closely related to M. fos.\o-iiz~.s from peninsular India. M. roseni fi-om I<crala State, India, is a blind, depig~nented cavernicole, probably related to M. eapeni, also from Icerala, but with notably differcrrt vertebral formula.

Occasional papers of the museum of

Natural history of the terciopelo Bothrops asper (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Costa Rica.

Comparative morphology and evolution of frogs of the neotropical genera Atelopus, Dendrophryniscus, Melanophryniscus, and Oreophrynella

The amphibians and reptiles of alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Cladograms of kinosternine turtles were generated based on a phylogenetic analysis of the distribution of character states within 27 morphological characters. These cladograms were compared to those of Seidel et al. (1986), which were based on binary coding of 34 protein electromorph products, those based on multistate coding of the presumptive loci responsible for those products, and those based on the combined protein and morphology data sets. The analyses resolve the relationships of most kinosternine taxa very well, with taxa with small plastrons generally being the most primitive, and those with large plastrons being the most derived. However, the morphologic data set may be biased because of character redundance, in this case due to high correlation of at least 16 of the characters with relative plastron size. The two remaining controversies concern the monophyly of the genus Sternotherus (here considered a subgenus of Kinosternon) and the determination of the nearest relatives of K. leucostomum.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Papers

Catalogue of Batrachians and Reptiles of Central America and Mexico