#hoserae

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Habitat of the newly described species of lizard known as Rankinia hoserae from near Gisborne in Victoria. This is a kind of so-called Mountain Dragon. In fact they like this sandy soil underlain with so-called buckshot in the form of sandy rubble rocks. Included are specific kinds of arid zone vegetation. Populations can expand across burnt habitat that affords similar conditions. Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the species occurs near Anglesea beach, Wombat State Forest and Kinglake National Park, where they are probably the most common. Learn more at: https://www.smuggled.com/issue-30-pages-37-64.pdf

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Rankinia hoserae Hoser, 2015 is a spectacular small species of dragon lizard from central Victoria. it effectively escaped scientific attention till 2015, when the Snakeman Raymond Hoser identified it as a previously unknown and unnamed species. Learn more at http://www.herp.net

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Mrs Snake Man gets honoured with a new species of Draco Flying Dragon Lizard

Hoser, R. T. 2022. Twenty one new species and eleven new subspecies of Asian Flying Dragon Lizard (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae: Draco). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 60:1-64. Published 17 August 2022. and Snake man's mum gets an honour! DRACO (DRACO) HOSERAE SP. NOV. LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:14EB8C31-04F6-4D31- AB70-FFB6B210B2A3 Holotype: A preserved adult female specimen at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA, specimen number USNM 318329, collected from Naga City, 4 km north and 18 km east of Mount Isarong, Camarines Sur Province, Luzon Island, The Philippines at 475 m elevation. This facility allows access to its holdings. Paratypes: 12 preserved specimens at the Texas Natural History Collections at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, specimen numbers TNHC 55097, 55100, 55102, 55103, 55104, 55105, 55106, 57754, 57755, 57756, 62791, 62792, all collected in Sorsogon Province, Luzon Island, The Philippines. Diagnosis: Until now, the Philippines endemic species Draco (Draco) hoserae sp. nov. from the southern parts of Luzon Island, south and east of the fl at areas around Gumaoa, D. (Draco) wellsi sp. nov. from Negros and Panay Islands, D. (Draco) wellingtoni sp. nov. from Siquijor Island, D. (Draco) hawkeswoodi sp. nov. from Cebu Island and D. (Draco) woolfi sp. nov. from Tablas Island have all been treated as populations of putative D. (Draco) spilopterus (Wiegmann, 1834), herein confi ned to Luzon Island north and west of the fl at areas around Gumaoa, although a number of earlier authors have suggested that one or more of the preceding named species were in fact separate species. The six morphologically similar species can be separated from one another as follows: ....Etymology: Draco (Draco) hoserae sp. nov. is named in honour of my mother, Katrina Joan Hoser of Lane Cove, NSW, Australia in recognition of her services to herpetology over many decades.

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Hoser, R. T. 2022. Eleven new species of Australian gecko within the genus Heteronotia Wermuth, 1965. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:1C7EAA91-A50D-4AEE-B6BE-3E6D17E9F9E7 Australasian Journal of Herpetology 55:3-48. Published 15 May 2022. ABSTRACT The Australian gecko genus Heteronotia Wermuth, 1965 has been subject of recent taxonomic studies including Wells and Wellington (1985), Fujita et al (2010) and Pepper et al. (2013), two of which resulted in the formal naming of taxa. The most commonly accepted taxonomy of just five recognized species is seen in Cogger (2014), including two forms named by Pepper et al. (2013). Notwithstanding the identification of further self-evidently unnamed forms by Pepper et al. (2013), all of which were common knowledge among herpetologists in Australia prior, it is significant that no one has sought to assign names to other sometimes common and widespread species in the genus. To rectify this error, obviously unnamed species and subspecies within the genus are formally named according to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999 as amended online since) for the first time. These new taxa are identified on the basis of morphological divergence, known biogeographical barriers affecting similarly constrained reptiles and the genetic evidence previously published. These include one species and a subspecies in the H. spelea (Kluge, 1963) complex (currently with three recognized species), Heteronotia planiceps Storr, 1989 is split five ways, with four new species named, as well as a new subspecies and the Bynoe’s Gecko H. binoei (Gray, 1845) is split into nine species, with two available subjective synonyms resurrected and six new species formally named for the first time. A further two morphologically divergent insular subspecies in that complex are also formally named. In summary the genus is expanded from 5 widely recognized species to include 2 resurrected forms and 11 newly named species, to make it have a total of 18 species, with four recognized subspecies. There may yet be other species or subspecies in the genus awaiting formal description. Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature, Australia, geckos; Heteronotia; binoei; planiceps; spelea; atra; fasciolata; derbianus; anomalus; australis, annulatus; horneri; wadei; new species; whybrowi; binghami; ruffellae; arcerii; hoserae; oxyi; maxinehoserae; nonidem; keilleri; pailsi; crottyi; new subspecies; jameswhybrowi; insularis; grooteensis; sundayensis.

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New to science - A new species of Tree Kangaroo, Genus Dendrolagus Müller, 1840 from Tembagapura, Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

Hoser, R. T. 2019. A new species of Tree Kangaroo, Genus Dendrolagus Müller, 1840 from Tembagapura, Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 40:50-55. Published 10 July 2019. LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:80A052AC-4B41-455D-93BF-40C5C0BD6F35 ABSTRACT An ongoing audit of vertebrate fauna in Australasia has revealed an unnamed species of Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus Müller, 1840 from Tembagapura, Mimika, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to formally name the taxon. D. hoserae sp. nov. is not common and due to its specialized habitat requirements including relatively cold, high altitude habitat of limited land area, it is particularly vulnerable to extinction due to an ongoing increase in human population and activity in the area. Less immediate threats such as global warming, introduced competing species and pathogens may also cause the ultimate extinction of this little-known taxon. A subspecies of D. ursinus (Temminck, 1836) is also formally named for the first time. Keywords: taxonomy; nomenclature; tree kangaroo; Irian Jaya; New Guinea; Indonesia; Dendrolagus; dorianus; stellarum; mayri; ursinus; new species; hoserae; new subspecies; arfakensis. Full text available as open access at: http://www.smuggled.com/issue-40-pages-50-55.pdf