Toxicocalamus buergersi (STERNFELD, 1913)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Buerger’s forest snake |
Synonym | Ultrocalamus bürgersi STERNFELD 1913: 388 Toxicocalamus (Ultrocalamus) buergersi — MCDOWELL 1969: 482 Toxicocalamus buergersi — WELCH 1994: 113 Toxicocalamus buergersi — KRAUS 2009 Toxicocalamus buergersi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 732 Toxicocalamus buergersi — O’SHEA et al. 2015 |
Distribution | Papua New Guinea Type locality: German New Guinea |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: ZMB 25232 |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Habitat: fossorial (digging) Behavior: diurnal Venomous! |
Etymology | Named after Theodore Joseph Burgers (1881-1954), a physician and zoologist who participated in the German Sepik expedition in New Guinea for the museum of Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. He became Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology in Düsseldorf (1923) and later at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. |
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