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Toxicocalamus stanleyanus BOULENGER, 1903

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Owen Stanley Range forest snake 
SynonymToxicocalamus 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 
DistributionIndonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea

Type locality: Dinawa, Owen Stanley Range, Central Province, 4000 ft.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.7.55, female 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1567 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Habitat: fossorial (digging)

Behavior: diurnal 
Etymologynamed 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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