Toxicocalamus lamingtoni (KINGHORN, 1928)
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Toxicocalamus lamingtoni
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Mount Lamington forest snake |
| Synonym | Apisthocalamus lamingtoni KINGHORN 1928: 290 Apistocalamus lamingtoni – ROUX 1934: 79 Toxicocalamus (Apistocalamus) loriae (part) – MCDOWELL 1969: 456 Toxicocalamus loriae X T. stanleyanus (part) – MCDOWELL 1969: 485 Toxicocalamus loriae Clade 3 – STRICKLAND et al. 2016: 671 Toxicocalamus lamingtoni — KRAUS et al. 2022: 1015 |
| Distribution | Papua New Guinea (northern versant of the Owen Stanley Mts. in Oro Province and southern Morobe Province, elevations from 100– 940 m) Type locality: Mount Lamington district, Northern Division, Papua. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMS R9351, collected by by C. Terence McNamara; paratypes: AMS R9352, R61072 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “A modestly sized member of the T. loriae Group (male SVL up to 428 mm, female SVL up to 500 mm), with the following unique combination of characters: cloacal plate single; a single intergenial separating posterior genials, widest posteriorly. Preocular elongate, approximately twice as long as high, contacting nasal but not internasal; one postocular; two (92%) or three (8%) posterior temporals; 160–178 ventrals in nine males, 186– 195 in nine females, sexually dimorphic without overlap; 41–53 subcaudals in males, 26–34 in females, sexually dimorphic without overlap; SCR 19.3–23.0% in males, 12.2–14.9% in females, sexually dimorphic without overlap; females with very short tails relative to males (TLR sexually dimorphic without overlap, 16.7–20.8% in adult males, 9.0–11.6% in adult females); pale markings on prefrontals absent, even in juveniles; tail spine brown, same colour as remainder of tail; venter uniformly yellow; juveniles with brown anterior supralabials; and head pattern in juveniles typically consisting of a complete, broad, pale band across the nape, parietals, temporals, and last two supralabials, with remainder of head anterior to that lacking pale markings.” (Kraus et al. 2022) Additional details (7638 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: previously considered a synonym of T. loriae but revalidated by Kraus et al. 2022. |
| Etymology | Named after Mt. Lamington (8.94°S, 148.16°E, elevation 1680 m), which was named after Lord Lamington, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie (1860–1940), was the 2nd Baron Lamington and a British colonial administrator, who served as the 8th Governor of Queensland (1896– 1901) and the 14th Governor of Bombay (1903–1907). |
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