Genus Aspidites Peters, 1876

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• Aspidites Peters, W. 1876. Berichtigung zu s. 533; Aspidiotus/Aspidites. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 914 [914] [nom. nov. for Aspidiotes [sic] Krefft, 1864].
• Aspidiotes Krefft, G. 1864. Description of Aspidiotes melanocephalus, a new snake from Port Denison, N.E. Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 20-22 [20] [junior homonym of Aspidiotes Bouché, 1844 and Aspidiotes Schoenherr, 1847].

  Type species:

   Aspidiotes melanocephalus Krefft, 1864 by monotypy.
• Aspidiotus Peters, W. 1876. Berichtigung zu s. 533; Aspidiotus/Aspidites. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 914 [914] [lapsus for Aspidiotes Krefft, 1864; junior homonym of Aspidiotus Bouché, 1833].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [202]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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