RECLASSIFICATION DES PYTHONINAE

[Le Fossa]

RECLASSIFICATION DES PYTHONINAE INCLUANT 2 NOUVELLES ESPÈCES ET 9 NOUVELLES SOUS-ESPÈCES.

Résumé en français de la page: http://www.smuggled.com/pytrev2.htm
(Aller à cette page pour beaucoup plus d'informations, en angliche d'Australie…)

Originally published in Crocodilian - Journal of the Victorian Association of Amateur Herpetologists
4(3) November 2003:31-37 and 4(4) June 2004:21-40.

La sous-famille des Pythoninae est splittée en 16 genres, incluant tous ceux qui ont été determines par Hoser (2000), 2 genres anciennement synonymes (Aspiboa, d'Asie, et Helionomus, d'Afrique) et 2 nouveaux genres (Broghammerus gen. nov. et Shireenhoserus gen. nov.).

43 espèces de Pythoninae sont à present décrites, avec la determination de deux nouvelles dans le genre Morelia.

PYTHONINAE: ESPECES ET SOUS-ESPECES DU MONDE

GENRE ANTARESIA WELLS AND WELLINGTON 1983
1 -Antaresia childreni (Gray 1842) (N. Australia)
2 -Antaresia maculosus (Peters 1873) (NE Australia along coast and ranges south of about Cairns, Qld)
> Antaresia maculosus maculosus
> ANTARESIA MACULOSUS BRENTONOLOUGHLINI subsp. nov.
3 -Antaresia perthensis (Stull 1932) (Pilbara, West Australia)
4 -Anteresia saxacola Wells and Wellington 1985 (Central Australia)
> Antaresia saxacola saxacola
> Antaresia saxacola campbelli Hoser 2000 (SE Inland Australia)
> Antaresia saxacola stimsoni (Smith 1985) (Western Australia)

GENRE ASPIDITES PETERS 1876

5 -Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864) (NE Australia)
> Aspidites melanocephalus melanocephalus
> Aspidites melanocephalus adelynensis Hoser 2000 (Kimberleys, West Australia)
> Aspidites melanocephalus daviei Hoser 2000 (Pilbara, West Australia)
6 -Aspidites ramsayi (Macleay, 1882) (SE inland Australia)
> Aspidites ramsayi ramsayi
> Aspidites ramsayi panoptes Hoser 2000 (SW West Australia)
> Aspidites ramsayi richardjonesi Hoser 2000 (NW West Australia)

GENRE ASPIDOBOA SAUVAGE 1884

7 -Aspidoboa breitensteini (Steindachner 1880) (Borneo)
8 -Aspidoboa brongersmai (Stull 1938) (Malay Peninsula and Sumatra)
9 -Aspidoboa curtus (Schlegel 1872) (West Sumatra)

GENRE AUSTRALIASIS WELLS & WELLINGTON 1983

10 -Australiasis amethistina (Schneider 1801) (Southern New Guinea)
> Australiasis amethystine amestthystina
> Australiasis amethystina clarki (Barbour 1914) (NE Australia)
11 -Australiasis clastolepis (Harvey et. al. 2000) (Mollucan islands, Indonesia)
12 -Australiasis duceboracensis (Gunther 1879) (Bismark Archipelago)
13 -Australiasis nauta (Harvey et. al. 2000) (Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia)
14 -Australiasis timorensis (Peters 1877) (Timor)
15 -Australiasis tracyae (Harvey et. al. 2000) (Halmahera island, Indonesia)

GENRE BOTHROCHILUS FITZINGER 1843

16 -Bothrochilus boa (Schlegel 1837) (Bismark Islands, PNG)

GENRE BROGHAMMERUS GEN. NOV.

17 - Broghammerus reticulatus (Schneider 1801)
> Broghammerus reticulatus reticulatus
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS DALEGIBBONSI SUBSP. NOV.
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS EUANEDWARDSI SUBSP. NOV.
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS HAYDN MACPHIEI SUBSP. NOV.
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS NEILSONNEMANI SUBSP. NOV.
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS PATRICKCOUPERI SUBSP. NOV.
> BROGHAMMERUS RETICULATUS STUARTBIGMOREI SUBSP. NOV.

GENRE CHONDROPYTHON MEYER 1874
18 -Chondropython viridis (Schlegel 1872) (Aru Islands, Indonesia)
> Chondropython viridis viridis
> Chondropython viridis shireenae subsp. nov.

GENRE HELIONOMUS GRAY 1842

19 -Helionomus sebae (Gmelin 1789) (Africa, mainly Sth of Sahara, excl. Sthn Africa))
20 -Helionomus natalensis (Smith 1840) (Sth Africa and adjacent areas)

GENUS KATRINUS HOSER 2000

21 -Katrinus fuscus (Peters 1873) (NE Australia)
> Katrinus fuscus fuscus
> Katrinus fuscus cornwallisius (Gunther, 1879) (Southern New Guinea)
> KATRINUS FUSCUS JACKYAE SUBSP. NOV.
22 -Katrinus mackloti (Dumeril and Bibron 1844) (Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia)
> Katrinus mackloti mackloti
> Katrinus mackloti dunni (Stull 1932) (Wetar, Indonesia)
23 -Katrinus savuensis (Brongersma 1956) (Sawu Island)

GENUS LEIOPYTHON HUBRECHT 1879

24 -Leiopython albertisi (Gray 1842) (Eastern Irian Jaya)
> Leiopython albertisi albertisi
> Leiopython albertisi barkeri Hoser 2000 (Mussau, PNG)
> Leiopython albertisi bennetti Hoser 2000 (NE PNG)
25 - Leiopython hoserae Hoser 2000 (Southern New Guinea and Southern Irian Jaya)

GENUS LENHOSERUS HOSER 2000


26 -Lenhoserus boeleni (Brongersma 1953) (New Guinea and Irian Jaya)

GENRE LIASIS GRAY 1840

27 - Liasis olivaceus (Gray 1842) (Nth Australia)
> Liasis olivaceus olivaceus
> Liasis olivaceus barroni (Smith, 1981) (Pilbara, West Australia)
28 - Liasis papuana (Peters and Doria 1878) (New Guinea and Irian Jaya)

GENRE MORELIA GRAY 1842.

29 -Morelia bredli (Gow 1981) (Central Australia)
30 -Morelia carinata (Smith 1981) (Kimberleys North West Australia)
31 -Morelia cheynei Wells and Wellington 1983 (NE Queensland, Australia)
32 -MORELIA MIPPUGHAE SP. NOV.
33 -Morelia harrisoni Hoser 2000 (Southern New Guinea and Southern Irian Jaya)
34 -Morelia imbricata (Smith 1981) (South West Australia)
35 -MORELIA MACBURNIEI SP. NOV.
36 -Morelia macdowelli Wells and Wellington 1983 (Eastern Australia, along coast)
37 -Morelia metcalfei Wells and Wellington 1985 (Inland Eastern Australia)
38 -Morelia spilota (Lacepede 1804) (Coastal NSW and nearby areas, Australia)
39 -Morelia variegata (Gray 1824) (Northern Australia)

GENRE NYCTILOPHILOPYTHON WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985
40 -Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis (Gow 1977) (Arnhem Land Escarpment, Australia)

GENRE PYTHON DAUDIN 1803

41 -Python molurus (Linnaeus 1758) (Indian subcontinent)
> Python molurus molurus
> Python molurus bivittatus Kuhl 1820 (Indochina to Indonesia)
> Python molurus pimbura Deraniyagala 1945 (Ceylon)

GENRE SHIREENHOSERUS GEN. NOV.

42 - Shireenhoserus anchietae (Bocage 1887) (Angola)
43 -Shireenhoserus regia (Shaw 1802) (Western sub-Sahara Africa)

[Pedro]

ok merci pour les zinfos...dis donc ça c'est sacrément compliqué les pythonidés...

[chlamydosaurus]

Ouai très précis... Merci Le Fossa
Voici un site sur la taxonomie des reptiles pour ceux que ca interressent et qui ne le connaissaient pas. Le voici http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/Reptiles.html.
Mais je ne sais pas si la mise à jour de la famille des boidae a été faite.
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