Taxonomic vandalism 2023 - Microelapidae named a second time!
Fake science ...
Mol Phylogenet Evol . 2023 Mar;180:107700. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107700. Epub 2023 Jan 2. Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family Sunandan Das 1, Eli Greenbaum 2, Shai Meiri 3, Aaron M Bauer 4, Frank T Burbrink 5, Christopher J Raxworthy 5, Jeffrey L Weinell 6, Rafe M Brown 7, Jonathan Brecko 8, Olivier S G Pauwels 9, Nirhy Rabibisoa 10, Achille P Raselimanana 11, Juha Merilä 12
Micrelapidae Das et al. 2023, is NOT a new discovery. It is in fact an illegally coined objective junior synonym of Micrelapidae Hoser, 2013 and hence the name must be exclusively attributed to the original scientist who discovered and named the family, Raymond Hoser, 2013 and not the later copycats. Hoser (2013) can be downloaded as pdf at: http://www.smuggled.com/issue-17-All.pdf