Antaresia perthensis

Antaresia perthensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Henophidia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Henophidia

Familia: Pythonidae
Genus: Antaresia
Species: Antaresia perthensis

Name

Antaresia perthensis (Stull, 1932: 26.)

• Holotype: MCZ 24426 ♀, collected by Winthrop Sprague Brooks

• Type locality: Perth, Western Australia.

Synonymy

• Liasis childreni perthensis Stull, 1932: 26.
• Liasis perthensis Mitchell, 1964: 306.
• Bothrochilus perthensis Cogger, Cameron & Cogger, 1983: 204.
• Morelia perthensis Underwood & Stimson, 1990: 603.
• Antaresia perthensis Kluge, 1993.

References

Primary references

• Stull, O.G. 1932. Five new subspecies of the Family Boidae. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 25–30. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Barker, D.G., Barker, T.M., Davis, M.A. & Schuett, G.W., 2015. A review of the systematics and taxonomy of Pythonidae: an ancient serpent lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 1-19 DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12267 Reference page. 
• Cogger, H.G. 2018. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Updated Seventh Edition. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia. xxxii+1060 pp. ISBN 978-1-4863-0969-6. Reference page. 
• Esquerré, D., Donnellan, S.C., Brennan, I.G., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Zaher, H., Grazziotin, F.G. & Keogh, J.S., 2020. Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Morphometrics Reveal Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in Pythons After Crossing Wallace’s Line. Systematic Biology. 69 (6): 1039-1051 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa024 Reference page. 
• Esquerré, D., Donnellan, S.C., Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., Fenker, J. & Keogh, J.S., 2021. Phylogeography, historical demography and systematics of the world's smallest pythons (Pythonidae, Antaresia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 161 (2021): 107181 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107181 Reference page. 
• Mitchell, F.J. 1964. Reptiles and Amphibians of Arnhem Land. in Sprecht, R.L. (ed.) Records of the American-Australian Expedition to Arnhem Land Vol. 4. Zoology. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 309-343. Reference page. 
• Rawlings, L.H., Rabosky, D.L., Donnellan, S.C. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2008 Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93(3): 603-619. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x Open access Reference page. 
• Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 Reference page. 
• Schleip, W.D. & O’Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66: 29–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683 Reference page. 
• Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2021. A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Sixth Edition. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Reed New Holland. 688 pp. ISBN 978-1-92554-671-2. Reference page. 

Links

• Antaresia perthensis (Stull, 1932) – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Antaresia perthensis at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 Jule 2009.

Vernacular names

English: Anthill Python
polski: Pyton malutki