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Kelly, Christopher M R, Barker, Nigel P, Villet, Martin H, Broadley, Donald G, Branch, William R. The snake family Psammophiidae (Reptilia: Serpentes): phylogenetics and species delimitation in the African sand snakes (Psammophis Boie, 1825) and allied genera. 2008.

Kelly, Christopher M R, Barker, Nigel P, Villet, Martin H, Broadley, Donald G. Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea a rapid radiation in the late Eocene. 2009.