Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Henophidia 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata
Cladus: Toxicofera
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Henophidia

Familia: Pythonidae
Genus: Nyctophilopython
Species: Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis

Name

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  • Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis (Gow, 1977)
    • Type locality: 6.5 km south-west of Oenpelli (12°21’S, 133°01’E), NT, Australia
    • Holotype: NTM R0840

Synonymy

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  • Python oenpelliensis Gow 1977
    • Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis Wells & Wellington 1985
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Kluge 1993
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Mattison 1995: 177
    • Morelia oenpelliensis McDiarmid et al. 1999: 173
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Cogger 2000: 613
    • Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis Hoser 2001
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Mattison 2007: 179
    • Simalia oenpelliensis Reynolds et al. 2014
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Wallach et al. 2014: 453
    • Simalia oenpelliensis Barker et al. 2015: 13
    • Morelia oenpelliensis Cogger 2014: 828
    • Nawaran oenpelliensis Esquerré et al. 2020
    • Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis Kaiser et al. 2020

References

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  • Gow, G.F. 1977. A new species of python from Arnhem Land. Australian Zoologist 19: 133—139
  • Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page
  • Esquerré, D., Stephen Donnellan, Ian G Brennan, Alan R Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Hussam Zaher, Felipe G Grazziotin, J Scott Keogh 2020. Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Morphometrics Reveal Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in Pythons After Crossing Wallace’s Line. Systematic Biology, 69 (6): 1039–1051
  • Kaiser, H., Thomson, SA. & Shea, GM. 2020. Nawaran Esquerré, Donnellan, Brennan, Lemmon, Lemmon, Zaher, Grazziotin & Keogh, 2020 is an invalid junior synonym of Nyctophilopython Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Pythonidae): simple priority without Zoobank pre-registration. Bionomina 20(1):47-54. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.20.1.4