Results of the Archbold Expeditions No. 112 The snakes of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Title Variants

Alternative: Huon Peninsula snakes

Alternative: Snakes of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2775

By

McDowell, Samuel Booker.

Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1964)

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1984

Notes

Title from caption.

"January 27, 1984."

"Represents a long-delayed report on the snakes collected by the Seventh Archbold Expedition ... with particular attention to the region of Mt. Rawlinson."

The snakes known from the Huon Peninsula (from the longitude of Lae eastward) are listed and discussed, mainly on the basis of spcimens collected by the Seventh Archbold Expedition but using other collections as well. The taxonomy of the genus Dendralaphis in the Australian region is discussed and the following species are recognized: D. punctulatus (including D. lineolatus); d. calligastra, D. salomonis, D. lorentzi, D. papuensis (these four have usually been regarded as conspecific); and D. gastrostictus (including D. meeki); hemipenial morphology, dentition, and braincase form are used for discriminating the species. A misidentification of Typhlops inornatus as Ramphotyphlops flaviventer is corrected. The snake fauna, like the frog and lizard faunas previously discussed by Zweifel, is most easily explained as the result of dispersal to a Pliocene island that became joined (probably in the Pleistocene) to the New Guinea mainland, with a lowland fauna occupying this zone of juncture. Little, if any, endemicity is indicated for the Huon snake fauna and there is no special resemblance to the snake fauna of nearby New Britain and Umboi"--P. [1].

Subjects

Classification , Huon Peninsula , New Guinea , Papua New Guinea , Reptiles , Snakes

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2775, 1984

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 10400313