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Tropidonophis multiscutellatus (BRONGERSMA, 1948)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Many-scaled keelback 
SynonymNatrix mairii multiscutellata BRONGERSMA 1948: 3
Tropidonotus picturatus — VAN LIDTH DE JEUDE 1897: 254
Tropidonotus mairii — VAN LIDTH DE JEUDE 1911: 269 (part.)
Natrix mairii — HEDIGER 1934: 478
Natrix mairii multiscutellata — LOVERIDGE 1948: 382
Amphiesma mairii — MALNATE 1960: 50 (part.)
Styporhynchus multiscutellatus — MCDOWELL 1984: 19 (part.)
Tropidonophis multiscutellatus — MALNATE & UNDERWOOD 1988: 120
Tropidonophis multiscutellatus — READ 1998
Tropidonophis multiscutellatus cottoni HOSER 2012
Tropidonophis multiscutellatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 751
Tropidonophis cf. multiscutellatus — CLEGG & JOCQUE 2016
Tropidonophis multiscutellatus — ROBERTS et al. 2024 
DistributionPapua New Guinea, Indonesia (Irian Jaya)

Type locality: Alkmaar, Lorentz River, Irian Jaya.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: RMNH 8669; male, paratypes: MZB 
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CommentSynonymy after MALNATE & UNDERWOOD 1988.

Similar species: Among the paratypes one from Bivak Island, Lorentz River (RMNH 8670), was determined by Malnate & Underwood (1988) to be picturatus and five specimens from the Utakwa River (BMNH 1913.11.1.100-104) were assigned to mcdowelli. They include in multiscutellatus 13 of the specimens listed by Brongersma as Natrix mairii subsp. 
References
  • Brongersma, L. D. 1948. A new subspecies of Natrix mairii (Gray) from Dutch New Guinea. Proc. K. Ned. Akad Wet. 51: 372-381 - get paper here
  • Clegg, Jonathan R. and Merlijn Jocque 2015. The Collection of Snakes Made by Benoît Mys and Jan Swerts in Northern Papua New Guinea in 1982–85. Journal of Herpetology 50 (3): 476-485 [2016] - get paper here
  • Daan, S. & Hillenius,D. 1966. Catalogue of the type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Beaufortia 13: 117-144
  • Hediger, H. 1934. Beitrag zur Herpetologie und Zoogeographie Neu-Britanniens und einiger umliegender Gebiete. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 65: 441-582
  • Hoser, R.T. 2012. A review of natricine genera Tropidonophis Jan, 1863 and Amphiesma Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854 (Serpentes: Colubroidae [sic]: Natricinae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 13:35–46. - get paper here
  • Iskandar, Djoko T. and Mumpuni 2002. The herpetological type specimens in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Collection. Hamadryad 27 (1):123-135 - get paper here
  • Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23
  • Lidth DE JEUDE, T.W. VAN 1911. Uitkomsten der Nederlandsche Nieuw-Guinea Expedite in 1907 en 1909. Reptilien (Schlangen). Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 9 (2): 265-287 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1948. New Guinean reptiles and amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and United States National Museum. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 101 (2): 305-430. - get paper here
  • Malnate E V; Underwood G 1988. Australasian natricine snakes of the genus Tropidonophis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA 140 (1) : 59-201 - get paper here
  • Malnate, Edmond V. 1960. Systematic division and evolution of the colubrid snake genus Natrix, with comments on the subfamily Natricinae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 112 (3): 41-71. - get paper here
  • McDowell, S B 1984. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 112. The snakes of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. American Museum Novitates (2775): 1-28 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
  • Read, John L. 1998. Reptiles and amphibians of the Kau Wildlife Area near Madang: a valuable conservation resource. Science in New Guinea 23 (3): 145-152
  • Roberts, J. R., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Richards, S. J., Iova, B., Tjaturadi, B., ... & Austin, C. C. 2024. Systematics and biogeo graphy of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan 1863). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae039 - get paper here
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  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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