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) |
| 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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