The most probable habitat of the ancestor superfamily Congiopodoidea Gill, 1889 is area modern Malay Archipelago and Australia; paths further distribution as well places origin taxa different ranks within are shown here based on morphological data. dispersal likely occurred via cold Antarctic Circumpolar Current, while members sister clade, family Synanceiidae Swainson, 1839, occupied new habit...

Abstract Large constrictor snakes, referred to the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx , are an ecologically prominent part of fauna Europe during Paleogene. Most species were named over a century ago their taxonomy is largely based on isolated vertebrae. Furthermore, majority taxa originate from imprecisely known localities within Phosphorites du Quercy, in southern France, thus exact age not know...

In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome (15,220 bp) of the citrus spiny whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Quaintance), a well-known pest from the superfamily Aleyrodidae. The A. spiniferus mitogenome contains 36 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 21 transfer RNAs (tRNA), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNA) and a large non-coding region (control region, CR). Like most...