Antaresia maculosa

Antaresia maculosa

Taxonavigation

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: Antaresia
Species: Antaresia maculosa
Subspecies (2): A. m. maculosa – A. m. peninsularis

Name

Antaresia maculosa (Peters, 1873: 608)

• Lectotype: ZMB 5948, collected by German naturalist Koncordie Amalai Dietrich (1821-1891), designated by Smith 1985: 265.

• Type locality: Port Mackay [= Mackay], Queensland, [21° 09'S, 149° 11'E]

• Paralectotype: ZMB 5860, Rockhampton, Queensland
• Paralectotype: ZMB 5513, Port Bowen [= Port Clinton], Queensland, [22° 29'S, 150° 45'E]

Synonymy

• Liasis maculosus Peters, 1873: 608.
• Antaresia maculosus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 41.
• Antaresia maculosa Kluge, 1993: 8, 51.

References

Primary references

Peters, W.C.H. 1873. Über eine neue Schildkrötenart, Cinosternon effeldtii und einige andere neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1873) (October): 603–618.

Additional references

• Barker, D.G., Barker, T.M., Davis, M.A. & Schuett, G.W., 2015. A review of the systematics and taxonomy of Pythonidae: an ancient serpent lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 1-19 DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12267 Reference page. 
• Cogger, H.G. 2018. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Updated Seventh Edition. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia. xxxii+1060 pp. ISBN 978-1-4863-0969-6. Reference page. 
• Esquerré, D., Donnellan, S.C., Brennan, I.G., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Zaher, H., Grazziotin, F.G. & Keogh, J.S., 2020. Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Morphometrics Reveal Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in Pythons After Crossing Wallace’s Line. Systematic Biology. 69 (6): 1039-1051 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa024 Reference page. 
• Esquerré, D., Donnellan, S.C., Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., Fenker, J. & Keogh, J.S. 2021. Phylogeography, historical demography and systematics of the world's smallest pythons (Pythonidae, Antaresia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 161: 107181. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107181 Reference page. 
• Kluge, A.G. 1993 Aspidites and the phylogeny of the pythonine snakes. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement, (19):1-77. DOI: 10.3853/j.0812-7387.19.1993.52 Reference page. 
• Rawlings, L.H., Rabosky, D.L., Donnellan, S.C. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2008 Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93(3): 603–619. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x Reference page. 
• Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 Reference page. 
• Schleip, W.D. & O’Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66: 29–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683 Reference page. 
• Smith, L.A. 1985. A Revision of the Liasis childreni species-group (Serpentes: Boidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12(3): 257–276. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2021. A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Reed New Holland. 688 pp. ISBN 978-1-92554-671-2. Reference page. 

Links

Antaresia maculosa at the New Reptile Database

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Gefleckter Zwergpython
English: Spotted Python
Bahasa Indonesia: Sanca tutul