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Aspidites ramsayi (MACLEAY, 1882)

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Higher TaxaPythonidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Serpentes (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Woma Python
G: Woma-Python, Ramsays Python 
SynonymAspidiotes ramsayi MACLEAY 1882
Aspidites ramsayi — BOULENGER 1893: 92
Aspidites melanocephalus ramsayi
Aspidites collaris LONGMAN 1913: 40
Aspidites ramsayi — KLUGE 1993
Aspidites ramsayi — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 165
Aspidites ramsayi — COGGER 2000: 602
Aspidites ramsayi panoptes HOSER 2000
Aspidites ramsayi richardjonesi HOSER 2000
Aspidites ramsayi neildavieii HOSER 2009
Aspidites ramsayi — SCHLEIP & O’SHEA 2010 
DistributionAustralia (Central Australia: New South Wales, North Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, West Australia)

Type locality: Fort Bourke, NSW, Australia  
TypesHolotype: MMUS (lost, fide Cogger et al 1983 and STIMSON 1969) 
CommentSynonymy: Hoser’s subspecies should be treated as questionable as they are not well diagnosed, partly only based on distribution. Hoser’s subspecies are often named after friends, relatives or other popular figures. Hoser, 2009 also designated the same type for neildavieii as for A.r.richardjonesi (Holotype: WAM 34070; Type locality: near Port Hedland, Western Australia.). A. r. panoptes is said to be from the Type locality of Burracoppin, Western Australia (Holotype: WAM R43459). The Type locality of richardjonesii is “near Port Hedland, Western Australia” (Holotype: WAM R34070). KAISER et al. rejected all names coined by HOSER in or after 2000.

Distribution appears to be the only distinguishing feature for distinguishing between Aspidites ramsayi panoptes and A.r. richardjonesii (wÜSTER et al. 2001).

Reproduction: oviparous. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Escoriza Boj, D. 2005. Australia. Reptiles and Amphibians, Part 2: Desert and tropical savanna. Reptilia (GB) (41): 52-57 - get paper here
  • Franz, V. 2003. Pythons of the World. Reptilia (GB) (27): 16-23 - get paper here
  • Hoser, R. 2009. Creationism and contrived science: a review of recent python systematics papers and the resolution of issues of taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 2: 1-34 - get paper here
  • Hoser, Raymond 2000. A Revision of the Australasian pythons. Ophidia Review 1: 7-27
  • Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, 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
  • Kluge, Arnold G. 1993. Aspidites and the phylogeny of Pythonine snakes. Records of the Australian Museum (Supplement 19): 1-77
  • Longman, H.A. 1913. Herpetological Notes. Part I. Systematic. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Brisbane, 2: 39-45
  • Macleay, W. 1882. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Sydney, 6: 813
  • Maryan, B. 2002. Status of the Woma, Aspidites ramsayi, in south-west Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 23:167-172
  • McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • 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
  • Schmidt, Dieter 2010. Vermehrung und Zucht von Riesenschlangen Draco 11 (44): 4-17 - get paper here
  • Uhlhaas, Manuel & Philipp Pohlscheid 2010. Haltung und Nachzucht des Woma, Aspidites ramsayi. Draco 11 (44): 73-77 - get paper here
  • Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
  • Winchell, S. 2009. Pythons Australiens. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (5): 16-27 - get paper here
  • Wüster, W., B. Bush, J. S. Keogh, M. O'Shea, and R. Shine 2001. Taxonomic contributions in the "amateur" literature: comments on recent descriptions of new genera and species by Raymond Hoser. Litteratura Serpentium 21:67-91
 
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