| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Ahaetuliinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Lorentz River treesnake |
| Synonym | Dendrophis lorentzii VAN LIDTH DE JEUDE 1911: 274
Dendrelaphis lorentzi — DE ROOIJ 1917: 62
Dendrelaphis lorentzi — O’SHEA 1996
Charlespiersonserpens (Macmillanus) jackyhoserae HOSER 2012
Dendrelaphis lorentzii — ROOIJEN et al. 2015: 47
Dendrelaphis lorentzii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 218 |
| Distribution | Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Irian Jaya)
Type locality: Sabang, Lorentz river, Irian Jaya
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: RMNH 4710 |
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| Comment | Behavior: diurnal
Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)
Synonymy: KAISER et al. 2013 rejected all names coined by HOSER in or after 2000. |
| Etymology | Named after Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz (1871 – 1944), Dutch explorer in New Guinea and diplomat in South Africa who collected the type specimen. |
| References |
- Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
- de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here
- Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
- Hoser, R.T. 2012. Divisions of the Asian colubrid snake genera Xenochrophis, Dendrelaphis and Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 12:65–76 - get paper here
- Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23
- Lidth DE JEUDE, T.W. VAN 1911. Reptilien (Schlangen). Nova Guinea. Résultats de l’expedition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle Guinée en 1907 sous les auspices de Dr. H.A. Lorenz 9. Leiden (E. J. Brill), pp. 265-287
- O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
- Rooijen, J. van, G. Vogel & R. Somaweera 2015. A revised taxonomy of the Australo-Papuan species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 51 (1): 33-56 - get paper here
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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