Toxicocalamus cratermontanus KRAUS, 2017

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Toxicocalamus cratermontanus KRAUS 2017
Distribution	Papua New Guinea (Chimbu Province) Type locality: 9.6 km east of Haia, Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, 6.7239°S, 145.0931°E, 920 m elevation, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: USNM 562941 (field tag BSFS 11114), collected by D. Bickford on 1 March 1996.
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Comment	Habitat: midelevation primary rain forest.
Etymology	The name is a compound masculine nominative adjective meaning ‘‘from Crater Mountain.’’
References	Kraus, Fred 2017. Two New Species of Toxicocalamus (Squamata: Elapidae) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 51 (4): 574-581 - 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
External links	http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E7EE791E-18F7-44EC-B86F-… Google images

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