Subspecies Tropidonophis mairii mairii (Gray, 1841)

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• Tropidonotus mairii Gray, J.E. 1841. A catalogue of the species of Reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E. pp. 422–449 in Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's Government. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2. [442].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, presumed lost, Australia.
• Tropidonotus australis Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1946.1.13.52, Port Essington, NT; BMNH 1946.1.12.88–90l.
• Tropidonotus semicinctus Duméril, A.M.C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. 1854. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 7(1) xvi 780 pp. [603].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 7419, Australia; original description cites New Guinea and Australia.
• Tropidonotus angusticeps Macleay, W. 1884. Notes on some reptiles from the Herbert River, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 432-436 [1883 on title page] [433].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R31902, Ripple Creek, Herbert River, QLD.
• Tropidonotus ater Macleay, W. 1885. On some reptilia lately received from the Herbert River District, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 64-68 [1886 on title page] [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM B5943, 'vicinity of Herbert River', QLD.

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. [214]

Generic Combinations

• Styporhynchus mairii mairii (Gray, 1841).
• Tropidonophis mairii mairii (Gray, 1841).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Amphibious, closed forest, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, predator, tall forest, woodland.

Further Details

Synonymous species located outside Australia.

Katophis plumbea Macleay, W. (1877). The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 2: 33-41 [36] [1878 on title page].
Type data: syntypes AM R31898-R31901.
Type locality: Mawatta, Binaturi River (as Katow), Papua New Guinea.

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