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Hoser, R. T. 2023. Three new species of Kraits in the Bungarus fasciatus (Schneider, 1801) species complex. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 62:54-64. Published 25 May 2023. Full text at: http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-62-Pages-54-64.pdf
Do not be fooled. This female lizard is Tympanocryptis vodafone. Tympanocryptis tolleyi Melville et al. 2019 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis vodafone Hoser, 2019. Lophognathus horneri Melville et al., 2018 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Lophognathus wellingtoni Hoser, 2015 Tympanocryptis argillosa Melville et al. 2019 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis optus Hoser, 2019. Tympanocryptis darlingensis Chaplin, Wilson, Sumner & Melville, 2023 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis deniselivingstonae Hoser, 2019 Tympanocryptis hobsoni Chaplin, Wilson, Sumner & Melville, 2023 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis courtneyleitchae Hoser, 2019 Tympanocryptis einasleighensis Chaplin, Wilson, Sumner & Melville, 2023 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis karimdaouesi Hoser, 2019 Tympanocryptis osbornei Melville et al. 2019 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis lineata Peters, 1863. Tympanocryptis petersi Melville et al. 2019 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis snakebustersorum Hoser, 2019. Tympanocryptis rustica Melville et al. 2019 is an illegally coined junior synonym of Tympanocryptis lachlanheffermani Hoser, 2019. Also it is worth noting that Jane Melville also illegally renamed the genus Melvillesaurea Hoser, 2015 as Tropicagama in 2018 as well. She has been getting people to use that name as correct since then, fully aware that her name is an illegally coined synonym of Melvillesaurea and that Melvillesaurea is in fact the correct genus name. See pages 47-63 here at: https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-72-pages-47-63.pdf
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New species of lizards. New to science.
Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® Issue 67, published 12 February 2024
New taxa formally named in Australasian Journal of Herpetology, Issue 67 (5 papers listed below). Published 12 February 2024
New Genus Pseudoegernia Hoser, 2024 New Subgenus Pertenuisscincus Hoser, 2024 Ignobilisscincus Hoser, 2024 New Species Carlia caitlinmoranae Hoser, 2024 Carlia sergeimosyakini Hoser, 2024 Ctenotus sonnemannorum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus arrernteorum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus kaprunorum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus pitjantjatjaraorum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus wiranguorum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus yamatjiorum Hoser, 2024 Liburnascincus bradcrossmani Hoser, 2024 Liburnascincus gregwallisi Hoser, 2024 Liburnascincus wellsei Hoser, 2024 Liopholis adelynhoserae Hoser, 2024 Liopholis faaaaaark Hoser, 2024 Liopholis jackyhoserae Hoser, 2024 Liopholis shanescarffi Hoser, 2024 Menetia admodumparva Hoser, 2024 Menetia anindilyakwa Hoser, 2024 Menetia bibbulmun Hoser, 2024 Menetia dhuae Hoser, 2024 Menetia dungayi Hoser, 2024 Menetia kullilli Hoser, 2024 Menetia langdoni Hoser, 2024 Menetia perexiguus Hoser, 2024 Menetia perpusillus Hoser, 2024 Menetia pertenuis Hoser, 2024 Menetia tanyadayae Hoser, 2024 Menetia yidinji Hoser, 2024 Pseudoegernia perthensis Hoser, 2024 Underwoodisaurus dorsei Hoser, 2024 Underwoodisaurus wellingtoni Hoser, 2024 Underwoodisaurus wellsi Hoser, 2024 New Subspecies Flamoscincus striata warumungourum Hoser, 2024 Flamoscincus striata yamajiorum Hoser, 2024 Liopholis adelynhoserae divergans Hoser, 2024 Liopholis guthega warkwoolowlerensis Hoser, 2024 Liopholis personata remota Hoser, 2024 Menetia surda facileoccultatur Hoser, 2024 Menetia surda perparvus Hoser, 2024 Menetia surda praemitis Hoser, 2024 Pygmaescincus timlowi geynyon Hoser, 2024
Heteronotia crottyi is a species of gecko discovered by Snakeman Raymond Hoser in 2019 and formally named in 2023. Learn more about this species from outback Queensland at: https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I55-Split.htm and do your bit for wildlife conservation.
World's first hybrid between a Black-headed Python and a Carpet Python.
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From Hoser, 2014
FORTITERCARINATA TASTYWHENCRISPY SP. NOV.
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Holotype: A preserved specimen at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, specimen number R21746 collected from the Tjaynera Falls Area, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.733 E.
This government-owned facility allows access to its holdings.
Paratypes: Five preserved specimens at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, being 1/ Specimen number R21733 collected from the Tjaynera Falls Area, Litchfield National Park, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.733 E., 2/ Specimen numbers R12871 and R12888 both collected from Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.163 S., Longitude 130.685 E., 3/ Specimen number R12098 collected from Tolmer Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.207 S., Longitude 130.713 E., 4/ Specimen number R12082 collected from Sandy Creek Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Latitude -13.25 S., Longitude 130.75 E.
Diagnosis: Fortitercarinata amax (Storr, 1974), until now known as Carlia amax, with a type locality of Mitchell Plateau, Northwest Kimberley District, Western Australia, has been treated by most authors as a single taxon occupying the tropical north of Australia from the Kimberley District, across the Northern Territory to the hilly areas on the south shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Divergent from this was Wells and Wellington (1985), who formally named a divergent form from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia (type locality of Koongarra, NT, Latitude -12.9384 S., Longitude 132.8051 E.) as Carlia instantanea and also Storr (1974) who named a taxon as Carlia johnstonei grandensis, from Groote Eylandt in the north east of the Northern Territory, which significantly Wells and Wellington (1985) also elevated to full species status.
Notwithstanding the fact that both “Carlia instantanea” and “Carlia grandensis” have been ignored by all publishing herpetologists in the 39 years since Wells and Wellington (1985) was first published, the molecular evidence of Potter et al. (2016) confirmed the taxonomy and nomenclature of Wells and Wellington (1985) to be correct in stark contrast to that of all other relevant publishing authors in the intervening period.
Herein, the three other unnamed forms identified by Potter et al. (2016) are formally named as new species.
Therefore, the Fortitercarinata amax (Storr, 1974) complex is as follows:
F. amax is effectively confined to the Kimberley District of Western Australia.
F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is the taxon from the Western section of the Top End of the Northern Territory, generally in a line west of between Darwin and the Victoria River District, with the centre of the population in the Litchfield National Park and Daly River districts.
F. grandensis occupies most parts of the tropical north of the top end, including Kakadu National Park, areas to the south that are hilly and extending to the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria and including Groote Eylandt, being the type locality for that species.
F. instantanea contrary to the assertion of Wells and Wellington (1985) is not widespread in the ranges of the top end of the Northern Territory but is in fact confined to a relatively small part of the Arnhem Land escarpment, this being generally near the type locality. It is F. grandensis that is the more invasive and wide-ranging taxon.
F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is a range restricted taxon, apparently confined to the English Company’s Islands and the adjacent Wessel Islands in the far north-east of the Northern Territory.
F. faark sp. nov. occurs in the hills of the southern shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, extending to the Selwyn Ranges in north-west Queensland.
The six taxa are readily separated from one another by different sets of characters as follows:
F. amax is a brown coloured lizard all over, with no significant contrast between the head and body upper surfaces colour, or if there is a contrast, it is usually only slight.
That is the head may be slightly more brownish than the greyish body, although quite often any slight transition in colour may be half-way down the trunk rather than between head and upper body (on neck) as seen as a rule in the other species.
The dorsum of F. amax has semi distinct dark spotting and more distinct scattered tiny white spots, which also run along most of the length of the tail. Other than the light spots and dull darker spotting, no lines run onto the tail from the body either on top or on the sides of the tail.
F. amax has white spotting separated from black spots on the dorsum, versus joined in all other species.
The belly is always whitish in this species, versus various configurations in the other five species, including whitish, greyish, with or without darker markings.
Upper surfaces of the limbs in F. amax are medium brown with dull blackish spots.
Most F. amax have contiguous prefrontals, versus generally not so in all the other species in the complex.
F. amax average 21 subdigital lamellae under the fourth toe, versus 23 in the other five species.
F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is separated from all other species in the complex by having slightly larger spotting than all others in the group (except for, F. faark sp. nov. which has similarly larger spots and blotches) and also well contrasting rather than semi-distinct dark and light spotting.
F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is separated from F. faark sp. nov. by having more dark spotting on the dorsum and especially the flanks in particular, versus F. faark sp. nov. which has a preponderance of white spotting, especially on the flanks and along the tail where they are prominent in that species alone there.
F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is further separated from the other five species in the complex by the fact that above the white line that runs from the front of the eye, under the eye to neck is a well-defined dark upper edge and line (contrasting with the lighter brown above this line). In all other species this dark line is either absent, or at best poorly defined and not strongly contrasting with the brown on top of the head.
F. grandensis has a dorsum that is brownish in colour and with moderately numerous very small dark brown dots, formed at the distal parts of some scales, more-or-less arranged longitudinally. There are occasionally a smaller number of scattered tiny white spots as well. These are less distinct on the flanks, making them more-or-less unmarked. Head on top is light brown and body is darker and greyish brown above. Upper labials are whitish, with slight dark etching and similar for lower labials.
In all other species in this complex, there is a well-defined white line that runs from near the nostril, across the underside of the eye, across the ear and along the side of the neck to terminate just anterior of the front leg.
This is not present in F. grandensis. In F. grandensis under the eye is white, but there is no obvious line extending beyond and along the neck. Instead, this area is the same brownish or greyish colour of the rest of the neck region.
F. instantanea has a dorsum that is greyish on top, not brown. On the dorsum is a series of spots formed by black and white sections joined, the black often in the form of tiny triangles superimposed over a white spot, leaving white on the sides of the black. On the flanks these black bits are expanded to form squares of 2-3 scales in size, with the white spots moved away from the black to form flecks on the otherwise light grey flank. The black on the flanks is in two rows, leaving a line along the mid flank without black. There are tiny white spots on this line as well as the rest of the flank.
Towards the hind limb and onto the tail, the density of the black on the flank increases to form a semi-well-defined band of black that extends halfway along the length of the tail, below which is a well-defined white line. The top of the tail is a medium grey.
Upper labials have thick, well-defined dark bars that terminate under the white line that runs below the eye.
Upper surfaces of limbs are light grey, but heavily marked with dark spots, blotches and bars giving them an overall mottled appearance.
There is a well-defined white line that runs from near the nostril, across the underside of the eye, across the ear and along the side of the neck to terminate just anterior of the front leg.
This is not present in F. grandensis as a species found in close proximity to this taxon and potentially sympatric with it.
F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is similar in most respects to F. instantanea but differs from that taxon by being a lighter sandy grey colour on top and with a generally washed-out appearance in terms of the dorsum. There is a greater preponderance of tiny white spots on top, versus the darker blackish ones, including when they are combined, but the white spots are not exceptionally numerous as seen in F. faark sp. nov.. Upper surfaces of the limbs in F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. are generally light grey with scattered dark spots.
The head of F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. is a light yellowish grey, rather than brownish as seen in F. grandensis or brown anteriorly and greyish brown at the back of the head as seen in F. instantanea.
F. faark sp. nov. is readily separated from the other five species by having a dull brown head, a dull grey body and an obvious preponderance of numerous scattered tiny white spots on the top of the body, the flanks and all over the tail. Any darker spotting is small in amount, very scattered, very dull and barely noticeable on close inspection.
Upper labials are white and with thin dark etching on the margins. There is no evidence of any dark line above the white line running under the eye. The upper sides of the head are the same colour as on top.
The upper surfaces of the limbs are brown with numerous scattered white spots and a lesser number of dull dark blackish ones.
No lines run along the sides of the tail.
The six preceding species, being F. amax, F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov., F. grandensis, F. instantanea, F. tasteslikesheet sp. nov. and F. faark sp. nov. are separated from all other species in the two genera, Carlia Gray, 1845 type species Mocoa melanopogon Gray, 1845 and Lygisaurus De Vis, 1884, type species Lygisaurus foliorum De Vis, 1884 as defined by Cogger (2014) by the following suite of characters:
Interparietal distinct (as in not fused to the frontoparietals); prefrontals in contact or narrowly separated; 5-8 (usually 6) supraciliaries; 26-35 midbody rows; dorsal scales are 6-sided, each usually with an angular posterior or free edge, mostly bicarinate and strongly keeled, the keels not being well aligned with the following scales; ear opening horizontally elliptical, much smaller than the palpebral disc and with only one small lobule on the anterior edge; 19-28 lamellae under the fourth toe. Colouration is mainly uniform above (more brownish on the head and ending greyish on the lower end of the body but varying with species). Distinct or semi-distinct spots and blotches on the body, all tiny in size and generally not distracting from the more-or-less uniform appearance of the lizard. Venter is white, whitish, whitish grey, with or without darker markings.
F. amax is depicted in life in Storr et al. (1981) in plate 1, photo 6, second from bottom on right and online at: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177476229
and
Bauxite Rainbow Skink from Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges WA 6728, Australia on September 17, 2012 at 09:26 AM by Pål A. Olsvik
F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. is depicted in life in
Bauxite Rainbow Skink from Litchfield National Park, Litchfield Park, NT, AU on July 8, 2023 at 04:00 PM by Iris Hickman
and
Bauxite Rainbow Skink from Tolmer Falls, Litchfield National Park Rd, Litchfield Park NT 0822, Australia on September 22, 2023 at 08:52 AM b
F. grandensis is depicted in life online at: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100485324
F. instantanea is depicted in life in Wilson and Knowles (1988) on page 253 middle left and online at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nieminski/5315225943/
and https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195641586
and
F. faark sp. nov. is depicted in life online at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smacdonald/4539877222/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/zimny_anders/32492490820/ and
and
Bauxite Rainbow Skink from McArthur NT 0852, Australia on August 2, 2018 at 06:03 PM by Steve Dew
and
Bauxite Rainbow Skink from Southern Lost City Campground, Limmen NT 0852, Australia on July 21, 2022 by dianadavey
Distribution: F. tastywhencrispy sp. nov. occurs in the region of the Western section of the Top End of the Northern Territory, generally in a line west of between Darwin and the Victoria River District, with the centre of the population in the Litchfield National Park and Daly River districts.
Etymology: In early 2012, I sat at a campfire with an Aboriginal elder from the Marranunggu tribe in the bushland off the road about 2 hours drive south-west of Darwin.
It was a large corroboree with Aboriginals from all across the top end of Australia.
I asked the man about the skink we had just caught and he replied that when you put some seasoning on the dead lizard and cook it up on the hot coals of a campfire that it becomes “tasty when crispy”. Hence the etymology. The words are adjectives in apposition.
World's first hybrid between a Black-headed Python and a Carpet Python.
See the details in the relevant peer reviewed paper at: https://www.smuggled.com/issue-56-pages-55-56.pdf
New species and genera with Aboriginal names ....
Johnpat Hoser, 2023 Malgana Hoser, 2023 Maralinga Hoser, 2023 Martugecko Hoser, 2023 Pitjantjatjaragecko Hoser, 2023 Yankunytjatjaragecko Hoser, 2023 Calotella (Wittenagama) wiradjuri Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus gudjal Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus yolngu Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus intermedius yungman Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus isolepis jinigudera Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus isolepis martu Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii baiyungu Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii djaru Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii ngaanyatjarra Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii nyiyarparli Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii pindiini Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii yindjibarndi Hoser, 2023 Eremiascincus richardsonii wiradjuri Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Yankunytjatjaragecko) aah Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Manwellisaurus) adelynhoserae Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Pitjantjatjaragecko) akramelfahkrii Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Pitjantjatjaragecko) dannyelfahkrii Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Pitjantjatjaragecko) lenhoseri Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Pitjantjatjaragecko) moseselfahkrii Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Maralinga) nuked Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Yankunytjatjaragecko) ooh Hoser, 2023 Diplodactylus (Diplodactylus) wongiorum Hoser, 2023
Grabbing Herald Snakes in Africa. See the big paper ....
ABSTRACT Following extensive fieldwork by Raymond Hoser in Africa in 2009 and after catching and inspecting large numbers of various forms of the widespread Herald Snake (Genus Crotaphopeltis Fitzinger, 1843), the genus was subjected to an intensive audit, including inspection of specimens of all previously named species in the genus, as well as a review of literature, published photos and the like. This examination included snakes from locations across the known sub-Saharan distribution of the genus as currently recognized. The result of the audit included the recognition of the six currently widely recognized species, Crotaphopeltis barotseensis Broadley, 1968, C. braestrupi Rasmussen, 1985, C. degeni (Boulenger, 1906), C. hippocrepis (Reinhardt, 1843), C. hotamboeia (Laurenti, 1768) and C. tornieri (Werner, 1908). Also resurrected from the synonymy of C. degeni (Boulenger, 1906), type locality Entebbe, Uganda, is the related taxon, Leptodira attarensis Werner, 1908 from South Sudan and nearby west Ethiopia (Gambela). An allied species Crotaphopeltis andreeblouinae sp. nov. from Cameroon and the Central African Republic is formally named for the fi rst time. The species C. tornieri (Werner, 1908), type locality Usambara Mountains, Tanga Province, northeastern Tanzania is split into four species, with the population from Mount Rungwe, Tanzania Ukinga to the south and the nearby Misuku Mountains in Malawi formally named as Crotaphopeltis juliusnyererei sp. nov.. Those morphologically similar specimens from the Ufi pa Plateau are formally named C. ufi paensis sp. nov.. The divergent population from the Rondo Plateau area of south east Tanzania are formally named as C. rondoensis sp. nov.. The remaining population of nominate C. tornieri (mainly in the north-east) is also split with the southwestern population from the Udzungwa Mountains being formally described as a new subspecies C. tornieri udzungwaensis subsp. nov.. The most widely distributed species C. hotamboeia is formally split into six subspecies, four formally named for the fi rst time. The most divergent species in the genus C. barotseensis, believed to have diverged from the others about 15 MYA, is herein placed in a new genus Paracrotaphopeltis gen. nov.. Taxonomic vandalism by way of pretending these forms are not unique, or by assigning them non-ICZN compliant duplicate names could hamper conservation to the degree that one or more way well become extinct as has already happened for other similarly affected taxa, including as detailed in Hoser (2019a, 2019b). Keywords: Africa; Snake; Reptilia; Squamata; Serpentes; Colubridae; Crotaphopeltis; barotseensis; braestrupi; degeni; hippocrepis; hotamboeia; tornieri; attarensis; ruziziensis; Congo; Cameroon; Tanzania; Sudan; Ethiopia; Central African Republic; Ufi pa plateau; Rondo plateau; new genus; Paracrotaphopeltis; new species; andreeblouinae; juliusnyererei; ufi paensis; rondoensis; new subspecies; udzungwaensis; rubrumlabellum; luteuslabellum; labellumpulvereus; albalinguacalloso. Full text at: https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-62-Pages-3-22.pdf
35 new species of skink lizard in Australia and nearby places north were discovered and formally named this month. They are in the genera Carlia and others like them. Learn more from the paper at: https://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I71-Split.htm Hoser, R. T. 2024. The inevitable split-up. Carlia sensu-lato (Scincidae), from Australia and New Guinea formally divided, including 15 new genera, 35 new species and 4 new subspecies. ... Australasian Journal of Herpetology 71:1-64.
