Stegonotus (snake)

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

Stegonotus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Stegonotus
A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854

Species

The genus Stegonotus contains 25 species which are recognized as being valid.[1][2]

  • Stegonotus admiraltiensis Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin, 2017 – Admiralty Islands groundsnake
  • Stegonotus aplini O'Shea & Richards, 2021 – Purari White groundsnake
  • Stegonotus aruensis (Doria, 1875) – Aru Islands groundsnake
  • Stegonotus australis (Günther, 1872) – Australian groundsnake
  • Stegonotus ayamaru C. Kaiser, O'Shea & H. Kaiser, 2019 – Ayamaru groundsnake
  • Stegonotus batjanensis (Günther, 1865) – North Moluccan groundsnake, Batjan frog-eating snake
  • Stegonotus borneensis Inger, 1967 – Borneo groundsnake, Borneo frog-eating snake
  • Stegonotus caligocephalus C. Kaiser, Lapin, O’Shea & H. Kaiser, 2020 – Dark-headed Sabah groundsnake
  • Stegonotus cucullatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – Bird's Head Peninsula groundsnake, slatey-grey snake
  • Stegonotus derooijae Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – De Rooij's groundsnake, Raja Ampat groundsnake
  • Stegonotus diehli Lindholm, 1905 – Diehl's little ground snake
  • Stegonotus dorsalis F. Werner, 1924 – Monumbo groundsnake
  • Stegonotus florensis (de Rooij, 1917) – Flores ground snake
  • Stegonotus guentheri Boulenger, 1895 – D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago groundsnake, Milne Bay groundsnake
  • Stegonotus heterurus Boulenger, 1893 – Bismarck ground snake
  • Stegonotus iridis Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – Iridescent groundsnake, Rainbow groundsnake
  • Stegonotus keyensis (Doria, 1874) – Kei Islands groundsnake
  • Stegonotus lividus A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Semau Island groundsnake
  • Stegonotus melanolabiatus Ruane, Richards, McVay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin 2017 – Black-lipped groundsnake
  • Stegonotus modestus (Schlegel, 1837) – Central Moluccan groundsnake
  • Stegonotus muelleri A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Philippine groundsnake
  • Stegonotus nancuro H. Kaiser, C. Kaiser, Mecke & O’Shea, 2021 – Timor groundsnake
  • Stegonotus parvus (A.B. Meyer, 1874) – Yapen Island groundsnake, Yapen little groundsnake
  • Stegonotus poechi F. Werner, 1924 – Pöch's groundsnake
  • Stegonotus reticulatus Boulenger, 1895 – Reticulated groundsnake
  • Stegonotus sutteri Forcart, 1953 – Sumba groundsnake

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. Genus Stegonotus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  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. Species Stegonotus aplini at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. Species Stegonotus derooijae at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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. Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A-H-A (1854), p. 683.
  7. Species Stegonotus poechi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  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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