The Hyphodontia s.l. genus Palifer has only been phylogenetically examined by one available ribosomal ITS and LSU sequence from GenBank. This Palifer verecundus sequence indicates a position of Palifer among Xylodon. During the studies for the presented master thesis 15 new ITS and 11 LSU sequences have been generated including Palifer gamundiae, P. hjortstamii, P. wrightii, and P. verecundus. The most successful combination of primer pairs was ITS5/ITS2 and ITS3/ALR0 for ITS amplification. The LSU region was amplified ...