| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Biak Island groundsnake, common ground snake |
| Synonym | Lycodon parvus MEYER 1874: 137
Stegonotus parvus — COGGER 1983: 214
Stegonotus parvus — COGGER 2000: 627
Stegonotus parvus — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Stegonotus sammacdowelli HOSER 2012
Stegonotus parvus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 686
Stegonotus parvus — KAISER et al. 2018: 30 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Yapen Island)
Type locality: “Neu-Guinea, Jobi” [Yapen = Japen Island, Papua Province, Indonesia]. Neotype locality: Serui, Yapen Island, Papua Province, Indonesia (ca. 1.8807°S, 136.2386°E).
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Neotype: RMNH RENA 46844, female, collected by D.L. Leiker on 22 February 1952, designated by Kaiser et al. 2018: 31. Syntypes: lost, originally MTD (= MTKD) 876, but destroyed in WWII (see Kaiser et al. 2018). |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (143 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy after COGGER 1983.
Distribution: in Australia on Murray Island (Torres Strait), fide Wilson & Swan 2013, but restricted to Yapen Island off New Guinea.
Behavior: nocturnal |
| Etymology | Named after Latin “parvus, -a, -um” = small. |
| References |
- Clegg, Jonathan R. and Merlijn Jocque 2015. The Collection of Snakes Made by Benoît Mys and Jan Swerts in Northern Papua New Guinea in 1982–85. Journal of Herpetology 50 (3): 476-485 [2016] - get paper here
- Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
- Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
- Hoser, R.T. 2012. Three new species of Stegonotus from New Guinea (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 12:18–22. - 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.; 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
- McDowell, Samuel B. 1972. The species of Stegonotus (Serpentes, Colubridae) in Papua, New Guinea. Zoologische Mededelingen 47: 6-26 - get paper here
- Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine Mittheilung von Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140 [also published as a separate print with pages 1-17 with a different title in which “Hern. Dr. Adolf Berhard Meyer über die von ihm” is replaced by “mir”] - get paper here
- O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
- Read, John L. 1998. Reptiles and amphibians of the Kau Wildlife Area near Madang: a valuable conservation resource. Science in New Guinea 23 (3): 145-152
- 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.
- Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
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