Apodora papuana

Apodora papuana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pythonoidea

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

Familia: Pythonidae
Genus: Apodora
Species: Apodora papuana

Name

Apodora papuana (Peters & Doria, 1878)

• Holotype: MSNG 29988, collected by L.M. D'Albertis in 1872.
• Type locality: “Ramoi presso Soron (Costa N.O. della N. Guinea), Nova Guinea austro-occidentali” [=Ramoi, near Sorong, West Papua Province, Indonesia].

Combinations

• Liasis papuanua Peters & Doria, 1878: 400 [original combination]

References

Primary references

• Peters, W. & Doria, G. 1878. Catalogo dei retilli e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Alberts e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione Austro-Malese (In Italian). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 323–450. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 

Links

• Tallowin, O., O'Shea, M. & Parker, F. 2018. IUCN: Apodora papuana  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T13300623A13300631. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T13300623A13300631.en

Vernacular names

• English: Papuan Olive Python