Stegonotus (snake)

Stegonotus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]

Stegonotus
Scientific classification
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 Kaiser, O'Shea & 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 Kaiser, Lapin, O’Shea, & Kaiser, 2020 – Dark-headed Sabah groundsnake
  • Stegonotus cucullatus (Duméril, Bibron & 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 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 Duméril, Bibron & 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 Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 – Philippine groundsnake
  • Stegonotus nancuro Kaiser, Kaiser, Mecke, & O’Shea, 2021 – Timor groundsnake
  • Stegonotus parvus (Meyer, 1874) – Yapen Island groundsnake, Yapen little groundsnake
  • Stegonotus poechi 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 "Ken", Peter Aplin.

The specific name, derooijae, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Nelly de Rooij.[3]

The specific name, diehli, is in honor of German missionary Wilhelm Diehl (1874–1940), who collected herpetological specimens in New Guinea.[4]

The specific name, guentheri, is in honor of German-born British herpetologist Albert Günther.[4]

The specific name, muelleri, is in honor of German herpetologist Johannes Peter Müller.[5]

The specific name, poechi, is in honor of Austrian ethnologist & anthropologist Rudolf Pöch.

The specific name, sutteri, is in honor of Swiss ornithologist Ernst Sutter.

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.
  3. "Stegonotus derooijae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. 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).
  5. Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A-H-A (1854), p. 683.

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, Sara; Richards, Stephen J.; McVay, John D.; Tjaturadi, Burhan; Krey, Keliopas; Austin, Christopher C. (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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