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Tropidonophis statisticus MALNATE & UNDERWOOD, 1988

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: PNG montane keelback 
SynonymTropidonophis statisticus MALNATE & UNDERWOOD 1988: 155
Styporhynchus montanus MCDOWELL 1984: 18
Tropidonophis statistictus — PYRON & BURBRINK 2013
Tropidonophis statisticus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 751
Tropidonophis cf. statisticus — CLEGG & JOCQUE 2016
Tropidonophis statisticus — ROBERTS et al. 2024 
DistributionNew Guinea (Orumba, Eastern Highlands Province),
Indonesia (NE/SE Irian Jaya)

Type locality: Orumba, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 142422 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (43 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyThe species epithet, statisticus, has roots in Latin and Greek. It is the root of the English word "statistics." In the early 19th century, the word "statistics" began to refer to the collection and classification of data in general. It is this reference that Malnate & Underwood used to name the species. As they mentioned, "... inhabited by a species of Tropidonophis to which we apply the name statisticus in allusion to the fact that it was only after multivariate analysis that we became confident of its distinctness." 
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
  • Malnate E V; Underwood G 1988. Australasian natricine snakes of the genus Tropidonophis. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA 140 (1) : 59-201 - get paper here
  • McDowell, S B 1984. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 112. The snakes of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. American Museum Novitates (2775): 1-28 - 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
  • Pyron, R. Alexander; Frank T. Burbrink 2013. Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles. Ecology Letters 17 (1): 13–21 (published online 2013, in print 2014), DOI: 10.1111/ele.12168 - get paper here
  • Roberts, J. R., Kraus, F., Allison, A., Richards, S. J., Iova, B., Tjaturadi, B., ... & Austin, C. C. 2024. Systematics and biogeo graphy of a Sunda-Papuan snake lineage (Natricidae: Tropidonophis Jan 1863). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae039 - 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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