Toxicocalamus longhagen ROBERTS, IOVA & AUSTIN, 2022
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Synonym | Toxicocalamus longhagen ROBERTS, IOVA & AUSTIN 2022 (nomen dubium) |
Distribution | Papua New Guinea Type locality: Dobel, Mt. Hagen Town, -5.837603, 144.278022, 1,650 meters a.s.l. |
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Types | Holotype. PNGM 22160, 25 February 1967, collector unknown. |
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Comment | Kraus et al. 2023 argued that T. longhagen is a nomen dubium as it is inadequately diagnosed from several other members of the T. loriae group. As a consequence, it cannot be determined at this time whether the name denotes a valid taxon or a synonym of another species of the T. loriae Group. |
Etymology | The specific epithet, longhagen, is a combination of “long” – a Tok Pisin word meaning ‘from’ and “hagen” that refers to the type locality of Mt. Hagen Town (Fig. 1). Tok Pisin is a uniting and official language of Papua New Guinea, the most linguistically complex region on the planet with more than 800 unique languages (Foley 2010). |
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