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Apodora papuana (PETERS & DORIA, 1878)

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Higher TaxaPythonidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Serpentes (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesPapuan olive python 
SynonymLiasis papuanus PETERS & DORIA 1878: 400
Liasis papuanus — BOULENGER 1893: 80
Liasis Tornieri WERNER 1897: 261
Liasis tornieri — DE ROOIJ 1917: 18
Liasis papuanus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 19
Liasis maximus WERNER 1936
Apodora papuana — KLUGE 1993
Morelia papuana — WELCH 1994
Apodora papuana — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 164
Apodora papuana — WARLINGS et al. 2008
Apodora papuana — SCHLEIP & O’SHEA 2010 
DistributionNew Guinea,
Indonesia (Misool and Irian Jaya)

Type locality: Soron (Costa N. O. della N. Guinea)” [Sorong, Irian Jaya, Indonesia] = “Romoi, near Soron” fide KLUGE (1993).  
TypesHolotype: MSNG 29988 (fide CAPOCACCIA 1961) 
CommentSynonymy after Kluge 1993.

Etymology: Named after its distribution in Papua New Guinea. 
References
  • Bär,R.B. 2000. Deutsche Erstnachzucht des Papua-Olivpythons (Apodora papuana). Elaphe 8 (3): 11-15
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S.
  • McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig and G. Doria. 1878. Catalogo dei retilli e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Alberts e A. A. Bruijn. nella sotto-regione Austro-Malese. Annali del Museo Civico de Storia Naturale di Genova. ser. 1, 13: 323-450 - get paper here
  • Schleip, Wulf D & O’Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66 (2010) : 29-79 - get paper here
  • Seung Hoon, Cha 2012. Snake, the world most beautifull curve [in Korean]. Hownext, 304 pp. [ISBN 978-89-965656-7-3] - get paper here
  • Werner, F. 1897. Über einige noch unbeschriebene Reptilien und Batrachier. Zool. Anz. 20: 261—267 - get paper here
  • Werner, Franz 1936. Nova species Boidarum Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. Pars Zoologica 30: (1)
 
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