Table 1.

Rates of speciation (λ) and extinction (μ) for selected clades of elapids, as inferred using the best tree (figure 1) and the constrained tree (electronic supplementary material, figure S2). The mean and upper/lower 95% highest probability density (HPD) for each estimate is presented. Bold denote clades with diversification regimes that were identified by BAMM as distinct from the elapid ‘background’: Micrurus and Hydrophis exhibit unusually rapid speciation and extinction rates. Brown, terrestrial taxa; blue, aquatic taxa.