Biogeographic Inferences on the Evolutionary History of the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah, Cantor 1836) Species Complex.

ABSTRACT: King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a snake widely distributed through southeastern tropical Asia, but in two separate subpopulations: one located in the Western Ghats (western Indian Peninsula) and the other much more extensive, ranging between the southern slopes of the Himalayas, Assam, Indochina to southeastern China. Similarly, it also appears in numerous tropical archipelagos such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Andaman Islands, but surprisingly it is absent from other large islands like Sri Lanka and Taiwan. In this study, we evaluated how climate could be shaping the distribution of this snake and estimated the future distribution of the species utilizing ecological niche modelling. To evaluate the effect of paleoclimatic conditions on the genetic structure of this spe

SUBMITTER: Amat F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522627 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature