Simalia boeleni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pythonoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Henophidia Superfamilia: Pythonoidea

Simalia boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)

Holotype: RMNH 9651, ♀, collected by K.W.J. Boelen on 25 December 1952.
Type locality: “Dimija (3°56’ S, 136°18’ E), Wissel Lakes, Dutch New Guinea, about 1750 m (5700 feet) above sea level”.

Liasis boeleni Brongersma, 1953: 317 [original combination]
Python boeleni — McDowell, 1975: 60 [subsequent combination]
Morelia boeleni — Underwood & Stimson, 1990: 593 [subsequent combination]
Simalia boeleni — Reynolds, Niemiller & Revell, 2014: 211 [subsequent combination]

Liasis taronga Worrell, 1958: 26
- Holotype: AM, adult ♂, collected by Mr. T.G. Downs in 1955.
- Type locality: “Lae, Papua”.

Brongersma, L.D. 1953. Notes on New Guinean reptiles and amphibians. II. Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. Series C 56: 317–325.
Worrell, E. 1958. A new Papuan python. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956-1957: 26—27. BHL
McDowell, S.B. 1975. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Aniliodea and Pythoninae. Journal of Herpetology 9(1): 1–79. DOI: 10.2307/1562691
Underwood, G. & Stimson, A.F. 1990. A classification of pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae). Journal of Zoology 221(6): 565–603. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04019.x 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.

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