Unplaced to Unplaced Synonym(s)

Museums

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• Python punctatus Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems Amphibien. Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum. Marburg : Krieger xv 199 pp. [90].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Australia.
• Python peronii Wagler, J.G. 1828. Descriptiones et Icones Amphibiorum. Part I. Plates I–XIII. Stuttgartiae, Tubingae. Monachii : J.G. Cottae. [pl. 1, and description] [ex Cuvier ms].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia ('Dusky-Bay'); RMNH presumed lost (vide), 'Dusky Bay', Australia.
• Morelia argus Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1844. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 6 xii 609 pp. [385].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), Australia and TAS.
• Morelia argus fasciolata Jan, G. 1863. Elenco Sistematico Degli Ofidi Descritti e Disegnati per l'Iconografia Generale. Milan : A. Lombardi 143 pp. [25] [nom. nud.].
• Morelia argus fasciolata Jan, G. 1864. Iconographie Générale des Ophidiens. Milan : G. Jan 100 pp. [95, Atlas livr. 7, pl. 5 fig. c].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (figure of specimen in Milan), Australia.
• Python spilotes macrospila Werner, F. 1909. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brussell. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 28: 263-288 [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB Type No. 2496 (General No. 4414), locality unknown.
• Coluber arges Linnaeus, C. 1758. Classis III. Amphibia. pp. 194-238 in Linnaeus, C. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [227] [for many years this name was widely but erroneously applied to the species represented by Coluber spilotus Lacépède, 1804; however the snake shown in the illustration in Seba, A. 1735. Locupeltissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Amsterdam Vol. 4. (pl. 103 fig. 1), on which Linnaeus' argus was based, purportedly came from 'Africa'. It is almost certainly not a specimen of any Australian species].

  Secondary source:

   Seba, A. 1735. Locupeltissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Amsterdam Vol. 4.

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, oviparous, predator, tall forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

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