Aspidomorphus lineaticollis (WERNER, 1903)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Striped crown snake
Synonym	Pseudelaps muelleri var. lineaticollis WERNER 1903: 251 Diemenia novaeguineae VOGT (see comment) Aspidomorphus mulleri lineaticollis — BRONGERSMA 1934 Aspidomorphus mulleri lineatus BRONGERSMA 1934 Aspidomorphus lineaticollis — MCDOWELL 1967 Aspidomorphus lineaticollis — WELCH 1994: 19 Aspidomorphus lineaticollis — METZGER et al. 2010 Aspidomorphus lineaticollis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 58
Distribution	Papua New Guinea (Trobriand I, Louisiade Archipelago, d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago) Type locality: New Guinea
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MLUH, a 475 mm female (W. Schlüter). Holotype: not found fide O’Shea 1996.
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy: See also Aspidomorphus muelleri. “Diemenia novaeguineae” is the name of a ZMB specimen that was labelled by VOGT; apparently the name was never published (F. Tillack, pers. comm.).
Etymology	Apparently named after the light line on the neck of this species, from Latin collum = neck, and linea = line.
References	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 Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 McDowell, Samuel B.;Cogger, Harold G. 1967. Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the family Elapidae, with notes on related genera. Journal of Zoology, London 151: 497-543 - get paper here Metzger, Genevieve A.; Fred Kraus, Allen Allison, Christopher L. Parkinson 2010. Uncovering cryptic diversity in Aspidomorphus (Serpentes: Elapidae): Evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54 (2): 405-416 - 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 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. Werner, F. 1903. Neue Reptilien und Batrachier aus dem naturhistorischen Museum in Brüssel. Zool. Anz. 26: 246-253 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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