Stegonotus (snake)
Genus of snakes
Stegonotus genus of snakes in the family Colubridae .[ 1] Species of the genus Stegonotus are native to Australia , Indonesia , and New Guinea .
Species
The genus Stegonotus contains 24 species which are recognized as being valid.[ 1] [ 2]
Stegonotus admiraltiensis Ruane , Richards , McVay , Tjaturadi , Krey & Austin , 2017Stegonotus aplini O'Shea & Richards, 2021Stegonotus aruensis (Doria , 1875) – Aru Islands ground snakeStegonotus australis (Günther , 1872) – Australian ground snakeStegonotus ayamaru C. Kaiser , O'Shea & H. Kaiser , 2019Stegonotus batjanensis (Günther, 1865) – Bacan Island groundsnake, Batjan frog-eating snakeStegonotus borneensis Inger , 1967Stegonotus caligocephalus C. Kaiser, Lapin , O’Shea & H. Kaiser, 2020 – Dark-headed Sabah ground snakeStegonotus cucullatus (A.M.C. Duméril , Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril , 1854) – Bird's Head Peninsula ground snake, slatey-grey snakeStegonotus derooijae Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – De Rooij's ground snake, Raja Ampat ground snakeStegonotus diehli Lindholm , 1905Stegonotus florensis (de Rooij , 1917) – Flores ground snakeStegonotus guentheri Boulenger , 1895Stegonotus heterurus Boulenger, 1893 – Bismarck ground snakeStegonotus iridis Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – Iridescent ground snake, Rainbow ground ₪snakeStegonotus keyensis (Doria, 1874) – Kei Islands ground snakeStegonotus lividus A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Semau Island ground snakeStegonotus melanolabiatus Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – Black-lipped ground snakeStegonotus modestus (Schlegel , 1837) – Moluccan ground snake, Maluku ground snake, northern frog-eating snakeStegonotus muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Philippine ground snakeStegonotus nancuro H. Kaiser, C. Kaiser, Mecke & O’Shea, 2021 – Timor ground snakeStegonotus parvus (A.B. Meyer , 1874) – Biak Island ground snake, common ground snakeStegonotus poechi F. Werner, 1924 – Pöch's ground snakeStegonotus reticulatus Boulenger, 1895 – Reticulated ground snakeStegonotus sutteri Forcart , 1953Nota bene 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
^ a b Genus Stegonotus The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
^ 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 .^ Species Stegonotus aplini The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
^ Species Stegonotus derooijae The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
^ a b 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).^ Duméril A-M-C , Bibron G , Duméril A-H-A (1854), p. 683.^ Species Stegonotus poechi The Reptile Database
www.reptile-database.org.
^ Species Stegonotus sutteri 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.
