Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis

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: Nyctophilopython
Species: Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis

Name

• 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

• 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

• 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