20.
in july 1957, members of a field party from the university of kansas - museum of
natural history, under the direction of sydney anderson, spent 12 days collecting
vertebrates in the vicinity of creel in southwestern chihuahua. among the specimens
were two snakes representing an undescribed species of the genus geophis. the
discovery of a new geophis species in southern chihuahua increased to 21 the
number of species of the genus known to occur in mexico and extended the known
range of the genus by more than 500 miles. geophis aquilonaris is different from all
other mexican representatives of the genus in having, on the body and tail,
numerous, alternating pale and dark bands. both sets of bands are in the form of
complete rings, or the dark bands are joined ventrally rendering the belly dark
which sentence from the paragraph supports the idea that species in the same genus
can have unique characteristics?
a. "in july 1957, members of a field party from the university of kansas -
museum of natural history, under the direction of sydney anderson, spent 12 days
collecting vertebrates in the vicinity of creel in southwestern chihuahua."
b "among the specimens were two snakes representing an undescribed species of
the genus geophis."
c. "the discovery of a new geophis species in southern chihuahua increased to 21
the number of species of the genus known to occur in mexico and extended the
known range of the genus by more than 500 miles."
geophis aquilonaris is different from all other mexican representatives of the
sin having on the body and tail, numerous, alternating pale and dark bands."