Stegonotus florensis (DE ROOIJ, 1917)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Flores Ground Snake
Synonym	Lycodon florensis DE ROOIJ 1917: 110 Lycodon florensis — MERTENS 1930 Stegonotus florensis — FORCART 1954 Lycodon florensis — DAAN & HILLENIUS 1966: 138 Stegonotus florensis — LANZA 1999 Stegonotus florensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 685 Stegonotus florensis — KAISER et al. 2018: 46
Distribution	Indonesia (Flores) Type locality: near Kotting along the upper Maumeri river, Flores, Indonesia, elevation 220 m [ca. 8.68°S, 122.19°E].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMA.RENA 11080, adult female, collected by G.A.J. van de Sande.
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Stegonotus sutteri FORCART 1953 was removed from the synonymy of S. florensis by Kaiser et al. 2018. According to Forcart 1953 Lycodon florensis should be named Stegonotus florensis since the teeth are more Stegonotus than Lycodon-like. This species is known from only 2 specimens.
Etymology	Named after Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia, where the holotype was collected.
References	Daan, S. & Hillenius,D. 1966. Catalogue of the type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Beaufortia 13: 117-144 de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here Forcart, L. 1954. Die Taxonomie von Lycodon florensis Rooij und Stegonotus sutteri Forcart (Ophidia, Colubridae). Verh Naturf Ges Basel 65 (1): 7-8. Forcart,L. 1953. Die Amphibien und Reptilien von Sumba, ihre zoogeographischen Beziehungen und Revision der Unterarten von Typhlops polygrammicus. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel, 64: 356-388 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 KAISER, H., KAISER, C. M., MECKE, S., & O’SHEA, M. A. R. K. 2021. A new species of Stegonotus (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the remnant coastal forests of southern Timor-Leste. Zootaxa 5027 (4): 489-514 - get paper here Lang, Ruud de 2011. The Snakes of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia. Asian Herpetological Research 2 (1): 46-54 - get paper here Lang, Ruud de 2012. Snakes of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara), Indonesia. Edition Chimaira, 349 pp. - get paper here Lanza,B. 1999. A new species of Lycodon from the Philippines, with a key to the genus (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Tropical Zoology 12: 89-104 - get paper here Mertens, R. 1930. Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Inseln Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., Frankfurt am Main, Abhandl. 42(3): 117-344. Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
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