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Fig. 5 in Rediscovery of the rare Star Mountains Worm-eating Snake, Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O'Shea et al., 2015 (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) with the description of its coloration in life
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- 1. Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, West Midlands WV1 1LY, UNITED KINGDOM; West Midland Safari Park, Bewdley, Worcestershire DY12 1LF, UNITED KINGDOM, and Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, AUSTRALIA
- 2. Ok Tedi Mining Limited, P.O. Box 1, Tabubil, Western Province 332, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- 3. P.O. Box 5623, Townsville, Queensland 4810, AUSTRALIA
- 4. Herpetology Department, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, AUSTRALIA
- 5. Department of Biology, Victor Valley College, 18422 Bear Valley Road, Victorville, California 92395, U.S.A.; and Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, U.S.A.
Description
Fig. 5. Distinguishing Toxicocalamus from Micropechis. (A, A')Holotype of T. ernstmayri (MCZ R-145946) from Wangbin, Western Province, PNG. (B, B') Holotype of T. grandis (BMNH 1946.1.18.34) from Setakwa River, Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea. (C, C') Yellow phase of Micropechis ikaheka (BMNH 1909.4.30.12) from the FakFak Peninsula, West Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea. Color-coding of head scalation includes six supralabials (orange), a single anterior temporal (yellow), two posterior temporals (blue), and a temporolabial (red). The individual we report here clearly has the same head scute arrangement as T. ernstmayri.
Notes
Published as part of O'Shea, Mark, Herlihy, Brian, Paivu, Blaise, Parker, Fred, Richards, Stephen J. & Kaiser, Hinrich, 2018, Rediscovery of the rare Star Mountains Worm-eating Snake, Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O'Shea et al., 2015 (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) with the description of its coloration in life, pp. 27-34 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e154) 12 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11385946
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- Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.11385968 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11385946 (DOI)
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/DA2BDC39D673624DEE4FFFDEDD084049 (URL)