Contact zone of slow worms Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 and Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840) in Poland

Contact zone of slow worms Anguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 and Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840) in Poland

Background Legless lizards, the slow worms of the genus Anguis, are forming secondary contact zones within their Europe-wide distribution. Methods We examined 35 populations of A. fragilis and A. colchica to identify the level of morphological and genetic divergence in Poland. We applied a conventio...

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Main Authors: Grzegorz Skórzewski, Bartosz Borczyk, Stanisław Bury, Daniel Kulik, Jan Kotusz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2025-01-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
Taxonomy
Anguidae
Biogeography
Hybridization
Morphometrics
Speciation
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/18563.pdf
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