| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Semau Island groundsnake |
| Synonym | Lycodon lividum DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 381 Stegonotus lividus — KAISER et al. 2018: 14 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Semau Island)
Type locality: “l’île de Pulo-Samao” [Semau Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia].
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: RMNH RENA 325A, adult female. Paralectotypes: RMNH RENA 325B, adult female. Collected by Salomon Müller and Pieter van Oort in mid-1829; MNHN 3414 |
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| Comment | Synonymy: Listed as a synonym of S. modestus by Wallach et al. 2014 and previous authors.
Behavior: nocturnal |
| References |
- Duméril, A.M.C., G. BIBRON & A.H.A. DUMÉRIL 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, xvi + 780 S. - get paper here
- Kaiser, Christine M.; Hinrich Kaiser & Mark O’Shea 2018. The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874). Zootaxa 4512 (1): 001–073 - get paper here
- KAISER, CHRISTINE M.; MARK O’SHEA, HINRICH KAISER 2019. A new species of Indo-Papuan groundsnake, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Serpentes, Colubridae), from the Bird’s Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia, with comments on differentiating morphological characters. Zootaxa 4590 (2): 201-230 - get paper here
- KAISER, H. ., MECKE, S. ., KAISER, C. M. ., & O’SHEA, M. . 2021. Three’s Company: discovery of a third syntype of Stegonotus lividus, a species of colubrid snake from Pulau Semau, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, with comments on an unpublished 19th Century manuscript by the naturalist Salomon Müller. Zootaxa 5039 (1): 56–70 - get paper here
- KAISER, H., KAISER, C. M., MECKE, S., & O’SHEA, M. A. R. K. 2021. A new species of Stegonotus (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the remnant coastal forests of southern Timor-Leste. Zootaxa 5027 (4): 489-514 - get paper here
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