Christopher M.R. Kelly

Christopher M.R. Kelly, South African herpetologist.

• Molecular Ecology & Systematics Group, Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 3 taxon names authored by Christopher M.R. Kelly

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2009

• Kelly, C.M.R., Barker, N.P., Villet, M.H. & Broadley, D.G. 2009. Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene. Cladistics 25(1): 38–63. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00237.x Reference page. 

2011

• Kelly, C.M.R., Branch, W.R., Broadley, D.G., Barker, N.P. & Villet, M.H. 2011. Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(3): 415–426. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010 Reference page. 

2013

• Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., O’Shea, M., Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review. Herpetological Review 44(1): 8–23. PDF Reference page. 

2019

• Barlow, A., Wüster, W., Kelly, C.M.R., Branch, W.R., Phelps, T. & Tolley, K.A. 2019. Ancient habitat shifts and organismal diversification are decoupled in the African viper genus Bitis (Serpentes: Viperidae). Journal of Biogeography 46(6): 1234–1248. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13578 Reference page. 

2020

• Taylor, P.J., Kearney, T., Dalton, D.L., Chakona, G., Kelly, C.M.R. & Barker, N.P. 2020. Biomes, geology and past climate drive speciation of laminate-toothed rats on South African mountains (Murinae: Otomys). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(3): 1046–1066. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz134 Reference page.