Toxicocalamus

Toxicocalamus loriae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea

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: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophiinae
Genus: Toxicocalamus
Species (24): T. atratus – T. buergersi – T. cratermontanus – T. goodenoughensis – T. ernstmayri – T. grandis – T. holopelturus – T. lamingtoni – T. loennbergii – T. longhagen – T. longissimus – T. loriae – T. mattisoni – T. mintoni – T. misimae – T. nigrescens – T. nymani – T. pachysomus – T. preussi – T. pumehanae – T. spilolepidotus – T. spilorhynchus – T. stanleyanus – T. vertebralis

Name

Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896: 152

• Type species: Toxicocalamus longissimus Boulenger, 1896, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Apistocalamus Boulenger, 1898: 705
  • Type species: Apistocalamus loriae Boulenger, 1898, by monotypy.
• Pseudapistocalamus Lönnberg, 1900: 578
  • Type species: Pseudapistocalamus Nymani Lönnberg, 1900, by monotypy.
• Vanapina De Vis, 1905: 48
  • Type species: Vanapina lineata De Vis, 1905, by monotypy.
• Apisthocalamus Boulenger, 1908: 248
• Pseudapisthocalamus Boulenger, 1908: 249
• Ultrocalamus Sternfeld, 1913: 388
  • Type species: Ultrocalamus preussi Sternfeld, 1913, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Description of a new genus of elapine snakes from Woodlark Island, British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 6 18(104): 152. DOI: 10.1080/00222939608680426 BHL
• Boulenger, G.A. 1898. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Series 2 38: 694–710. BHL Reference page. 
• Lönnberg, E. 1900. Reptiles and amphibians collected in German New Guinea by the late Dr Erik Nyman. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 7 6(36): 574–582. BHL Reference page. 
• Sternfeld, R. 1913. Beiträge zur Schlangenfauna Neuguineas und der benachbarten Inselgruppen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1913: 384–389. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• McDowell, S.B. 1967. Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the family Elapidae, with notes on related genera. Journal of Zoology 151(4): 497–543. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1967.tb02130.x Reference page. 
• McDowell, S.B. 1969. Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae. Journal of Zoology 159(4): 443–511. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1969.tb03900.x Reference page. 
• Kraus, F. 2009. New species of Toxicocalamus (Squamata: Elapidae) from Papua New Guinea. Herpetologica 65(4): 460–467. DOI: 10.1655/09-002.1 Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 
• O’Shea, M., Parker, F. & Kaiser, H. 2015. A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake, genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes: Elapidae), from the Star Mountains of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, with a revised dichotomous key to the genus. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(6): 241–264. DOI: 10.3099/0027-4100-161.6.241 Reference page. 
• O’Shea, M., Allison, A. & Kaiser, H. 2018. The taxonomic history of the enigmatic Papuan snake genus Toxicocalamus (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), with the description of a new species from the Managalas Plateau of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, and a revised dichotomous key. Amphibia-Reptilia 39(4): 403–433. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-20181052 Reference page. 
• Strickland, J.L., Carter, S., Kraus, F. & Parkinson, C.L. 2016. Snake evolution in Melanesia: origin of the Hydrophiinae (Serpentes, Elapidae), and the evolutionary history of the enigmatic New Guinean elapid Toxicocalamus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178(3): 663–678. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12423 Reference page. 
• Kraus, F. 2017. Two New Species of Toxicocalamus (Squamata: Elapidae) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology 51(4): 574–581. DOI: 10.1670/17-035 Reference page. 
• Kraus, F. 2020. A new species of Toxicocalamus (Squamata: Elapidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4859(1): 127–137. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.1.5 Reference page. 
• Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page. 
• Roberts, J.R., Iova, B. & Austin, C.C. 2022. A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) from Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 399–409. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.90520 Reference page. 
• Kraus, F., Kaiser, H. & O’Shea, M. 2022. Hidden diversity in semi-fossorial Melanesian forest snakes: A revision of the Toxicocalamus loriae complex (Squamata, Elapidae) from New Guinea. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 997–1034. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e89647 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Toxicocalamus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 July 2018.

Vernacular names

English: New Guinean Forest Snakes

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