Toxicocalamus grandis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea

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 Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophiinae
Genus: Toxicocalamus
Species: Toxicocalamus grandis

Name

Toxicocalamus grandis Boulenger 1914: 265

• Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.18.34 (formerly BMNH 1913.11.1.111), adult ♀, collected by A.F.R.Wollaston & C.B.Kloss on the Wollaston New Guinea Expedition, between 8 December 1912 - 9 March 1913.

• Type locality: ""Launch camp", Setekwa R.”, ((=Setekwa River), Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea).

Synonymy

• Apistocalamus grandis Boulenger, 1914: 265
• Toxicocalamus (Apistocalamus) grandis McDowell, 1969: 467
• Toxicocalamus grandis Welch, 1994: 113

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1914. An annotated list of the Batrachians and Reptiles collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 20 (5, 1): 247–274. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07833.x ; BHLReference page. 

Additional references

• Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page. 
• McDowell, S.B. 1967. Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the family Elapidae, with notes on related genera. Journal of Zoology 151(4): 497–543. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1967.tb02130.x Reference page. 
• McDowell, S.B. 1969. Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae. Journal of Zoology 159(4): 443–511. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1969.tb03900.x Reference page. 
• O'Shea, M., Blum, P. & Kaiser, H. 2020. Discovery of the second specimen of Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O’Shea et al., 2015 (Squamata: Elapidae), the first from Papua Province, Indonesia, with comments on the type locality of T. grandis (Boulenger, 1914). Bonn zoological Bulletin 69(2): 395–411. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Toxicocalamus grandis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 November 2020.
• Tallowin, O., O'Shea, M. & Parker, F. 2015. IUCN: Toxicocalamus grandis  (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T42493877A42493886. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T42493877A42493886.en

Vernacular names

English: Setekwa River Forest Snake

Catefory:BMNH