Stegonotus_(snake)

<i>Stegonotus</i> (snake)

Stegonotus (snake)

Genus of snakes

Stegonotus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1] Species of the genus Stegonotus are native to Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea.

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Species

The genus Stegonotus contains 24 species which are recognized as being valid.[1][2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Stegonotus.

Etymology

The specific name, aplini, is in honor of Australian herpetologist and mammalogist Kenneth Peter "Ken" Aplin.[3]

The specific name, derooijae, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Nelly de Rooij.[4]

The specific name, diehli, is in honor of German missionary Wilhelm Diehl (1874–1940), who collected herpetological specimens in New Guinea.[5]

The specific name, guentheri, is in honor of German-born British herpetologist Albert Günther.[5]

The specific name, muelleri, is in honor of German herpetologist Johannes Peter Müller.[6]

The specific name, poechi, is in honor of Austrian ethnologist & anthropologist Rudolf Pöch.[7]

The specific name, sutteri, is in honor of Swiss ornithologist Ernst Sutter.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    Genus Stegonotus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. [2]
    O’Shea, Mark; Richards, Stephen J. (2021-02-04). "A striking new species of Papuan groundsnake (Stegonotus : Colubridae) from southern Papua New Guinea, with a dichotomous key to the genus in New Guinea". Zootaxa. 4926 (1): 26–42. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4926.1.2. hdl:2436/623920. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33756757. S2CID 232340028.
  3. [3]
    Species Stegonotus aplini at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. [4]
    Species Stegonotus derooijae at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  5. [5]
    Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Stegonotus diehli, p. 72; S. guentheri, p. 111).
  6. [6]
    Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A-H-A (1854), p. 683.
  7. [7]
    Species Stegonotus poechi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  8. [8]
    Species Stegonotus sutteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus Stegonotus, pp. 364–365).
  • Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A[-H-A] (1854). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Première partie. Comprenant l'histoire des serpents non venimeux. [=General Herpetology or the Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 7. First Part. Containing the Natural History of the Nonvenomous Snakes]. Paris: Roret. xvi + 780 pp. (Stegonotus, new genus, pp. 680–682; S. muelleri, new species, pp. 682–683). (in French).
  • Ruane S, Richards SJ, McVay JD, Tjaturadi B, Krey K, Austin CC (2017). "Cryptic and non-cryptic diversity in New Guinea ground snakes of the genus Stegonotus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854: a description of four new species (Squamata: Colubridae)". Journal of Natural History 30: 1-28.


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