Title
Evidence Of Population Genetic Structure Within The Florida Worm Lizard, Rhineura Floridana (Amphisbaenia: Rhineuridae)
Abstract
The Florida Worm Lizard (Rhineura floridana) is the only extant representative of the suborder Amphisbaenia occurring in the United States and the only living representative of the Rhineuridae. We updated the known distribution of this species from 510 records with known localities. We further examined geographic genetic structure within this species using 1360 bp of mitochondrial DNA sequence data from 18 samples of R. floridana. Our results suggest an ancient divergence between populations in the north-central Florida peninsula from populations in the south-central peninsula. High genetic distances are observed within south-central populations, whereas genetic structure within northern populations is less discrete and characterized by much shallower divergences. Our findings suggest that south-central populations may be candidates for taxonomic recognition (or recognition as distinct management units) if additional genetic and morphological data support our results. Copyright 2005 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Publication Title
Journal of Herpetology
Volume
39
Issue
1
Number of Pages
118-124
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1670/0022-1511(2005)039[0118:EOPGSW]2.0.CO;2
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
16244408335 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/16244408335
STARS Citation
Mulvaney, Abigail; Castoe, Todd A.; Ashton, Kyle G.; Krysko, Kenneth L.; and Parkinson, Christopher L., "Evidence Of Population Genetic Structure Within The Florida Worm Lizard, Rhineura Floridana (Amphisbaenia: Rhineuridae)" (2005). Scopus Export 2000s. 4553.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/4553