Acrochordus arafurae MCDOWELL, 1979

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Higher Taxa	Acrochordidae, Caenophidia, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Arafura filesnake
Synonym	Acrochordus arafurae MCDOWELL 1979 Acrochordus arafurae — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 226 Acrochordus arafurae — COGGER 2000: 615 Acrochordus arafurae — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Distribution	E Indonesia, New Guinea, N Australia (coastal areas of Northern Territory, Queensland) Type locality: Lake Daviumbo, western Province. Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: AMNH 59887
Comment	Reproduction: viviparous. Acrochordus arafurae may be the second parthenogenetic snake species (after Ramphotyplops braminus). Habitat: marine
References	Burger W. L. and Natsuno, T. 1974. A new genus for the Arafura Smooth Seasnake and redefinitions of other seasnake genera. The Snake 6: 61-75. Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Dubach, Jean, Agatha Sajewicz and Ray Pawley 1997. Parthenogenesis in the Arafuran file snake (Acrochordus arafurae). Herpetological Natural History 5 (1):11-18. Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. McDowell S B 1979. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part 3. Boinae and Acrochordoidea (Reptilia, Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 13 (1): 105-111 - get paper here Sanders, Kate L.; Mumpuni, Amir Hamidy, Jason J. Head, David J. Gower 2010. Phylogeny and divergence times of filesnakes (Acrochordus): Inferences from morphology, fossils and three molecular loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (3): 857-867 - get paper here Shine, R. 1986. Sexual differences in morphology and niche utilization in an aquatic snake, Acrochordus arafurae Oecologia (Berl.) 69: 260-267 Somaweera, R. 2009. Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List - Acrochordus arafurae - Least Concern, LC http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/acrochordidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Acrochordidae/Acrochordus/arafurae Google images

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