Museum DNA reveals a new, potentially extinct species of rinkhals (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hemachatus) from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe

• Tom Major ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tmajor@bournemouth.ac.uk

  Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Bangor, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0351-6593

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• Pia Renk,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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• Jens Reissig,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ultimate Creatures, Kelvin, Sandton, South Africa

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• Johanna L. A. Paijmans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Ellie Morris,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Bangor, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Michael Hofreiter,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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• Axel Barlow,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Bangor, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Donald G. Broadley †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

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• Wolfgang Wüster

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Bangor, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

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