Stegonotus admiraltiensis RUANE, RICHARDS, MCVAY, TJATURADI, KREY & AUSTIN, 2017

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Admiralty Archipelago groundsnake
Synonym	Stegonotus admiraltiensis RUANE, RICHARDS, MCVAY, TJATURADI, KREY & AUSTIN 2017: 21 Stegonotus modestus — SCHLEGEL 1837 Stegonotus admiraltiensis — KAISER et al. 2018: 60
Distribution	Papua New Guinea (Manus Island and surrounding islands, Manus Province) Type locality: Penchal Village on Rambutyo Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, elevation 58 m, (2.3283333°S, 147.7666667°E).
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: LSUM 93598 (field number CCA 2087), adult male. Collected by Christopher C. Austin on 1 September 2001. Paratypes: LSUM 93599 (field number CCA 2092) and LSUM 93600 (field number CCA 2097), both collected by Christopher C. Austin on 3 September 2001 from northeast of Penchal Village on Rambutyo Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, elevation 100 m asl (2.3405000°S, 147.7945000°E); LSUM 93597 (field number CCA 2042), collected by C. Austin on 29 August 2001 from near Peyon Village on Los Negros Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, elevation 10 m asl (2.0326667°S, 147.4341667°E).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Stegonotus admiraltiensis can be diagnosed from its congeners by the following combination of characters: a reddish-tan unpatterned dorsum with an immaculate white or cream venter that may be barely darker approaching and continuing posteriorly onto the subcaudal scales, 17 or 19 dorsal scale rows at midbody, the presence of two apical pits on most or all dorsal scales, 202−214 ventral scales and 93−98 divided subcaudal scales, two preocular scales, eight supralabial scales, nine or ten infralabial scales, with the supralabial and infralabial scales cream with little or no dark pigmentation.
Comment	Behavior: nocturnal; typical for Stegonotus, once picked up S. admiraltiensis sp. nov. rapidly attempted to bite the collector’s hand and writhed violently in a side-to-side motion (Ruane et al. 2017).
Etymology	The species epithet refers to the Admiralty Islands where this species is found, an archipelago of 18 islands to the north of New Guinea, comprising Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.
References	Kaiser, Christine M.; Hinrich Kaiser & Mark O'Shea 2018. The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874). Zootaxa 4512 (1): 001–073 - get paper here KAISER, CHRISTINE M.; MARK O’SHEA, HINRICH KAISER 2019. A new species of Indo-Papuan groundsnake, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Serpentes, Colubridae), from the Bird’s Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia, with comments on differentiating morphological characters. Zootaxa 4590 (2): 201-230 - get paper here Ruane, S., Richards, S. J., McVay, J. D., Tjaturadi, B., Krey, K., & Austin, C. 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 52: 917-944 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http:www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9E21390E-3FD4-40EB-9442… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/306017158289556 Google images

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