Toxicocalamus stanleyanus BOULENGER, 1903
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Owen Stanley Range forest snake |
Synonym | Toxicocalamus stanleyanus BOULENGER 1903: 128 Apisthocalamus stanleyanus — BOULENGER 1908 Toxicocalamus (Toxicocalamus) stanleyanus — MCDOWELL 1969: 475 Toxicocalamus stanleyanus — WELCH 1994: 113 Toxicocalamus stanleyanus — KRAUS 2009 Toxicocalamus stanleyanus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 733 |
Distribution | Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea
Type locality: Dinawa, Owen Stanley Range, Central Province, 4000 ft.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.7.55, female |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1567 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Venomous!
Habitat: fossorial (digging)
Behavior: diurnal |
Etymology | named after the type locality. |
References |
- Boulenger, G.A. 1903. Descriptions of new reptiles from British New Guinea. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1: 125-129 - get paper here
- Boulenger, G.A. 1908. Description of a new elapine snake of the genus Apisthocalamus, Blg., from New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 1 (3): 248-249. - get paper here
- Kraus, Fred 2009. NEW SPECIES OF TOXICOCALAMUS (SQUAMATA: ELAPIDAE) FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Herpetologica 65 (4): 460 - get paper here
- McDowell, Samuel B. 1969. Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae. Journal of Zoology, London 159: 443-511 - get paper here
- O’Shea, Mark; Allen Allison, Hinrich Kaiser 2018. The taxonomic history of the enigmatic Papuan snake genus Toxicocalamus (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), with the description of a new species from the Managalas Plateau of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, and a revised dichotomous key. Amphibia-Reptilia 39 (4): 403-433 - get paper here
- O’Shea, Mark; Fred Parker, and Hinrich Kaiser 2015. A New Species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake, Genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes: Elapidae), From the Star Mountains of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, With a Revised Dichotomous Key to the Genus. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 161 (6): 241-264. - 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.
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