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Callophis, harmless mimicking poisonous species, 262
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Callophis (belonging to the same family as the American Elaps) have large poison fangs, other species of the same genus have none; and that one of the latter (C. gracilis) resembles a poisonous species (C. intestinalis) so closely, that only an exact comparison will discover the difference of colour and marking.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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A similar kind of resemblance is said to exist between another harmless snake, Megaerophis flaviceps, and the poisonous Callophis bivirgatus; and in both these cases the harmless snake is less abundant than the poisonous one, as occurs in all examples of true mimicry. [
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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