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Stegonotus dorsalis WERNER, 1924

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymStegonotus dorsalis WERNER 1924: 32
Stegonotus dorsalis — KAISER et al. 2018: 48 (status unclear)
Stegonotus dorsalis — BOUNDY et al. 2019
Stegonotus dorsalis — GEMEL et al. 2019: 196 
DistributionPapua New Guinea (Monumbo)

Type locality: near Bogia, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea fide Kaiser et al. 2018.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMW 14861, an adult male. Collected by Rudolf Pöch between 28 July and 25 November 1904 
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CommentSynonymy: Stegonotus dorsalis is listed as synonym of S. diehli by Wallach et al. 2014. Kaiser et al. 2018 resurrected Stegonotus dorsalis as valid species.

Stegonotus dorsalis is only known from the holotype. 
References
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - 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
  • 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.
  • Werner, F. 1924. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. l. Teil. Sitzungsb. Ber. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Abt. l, 133: 29 - 56 - get paper here
 
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