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>The first female specimen of the poorly known Arfak Stout-tailed Snake, Calamophis sharonbrooksae Murphy, 2012 (Serpentes: Colubroidea: Homalopsidae), from the Vogelkop Peninsula of Indonesian West New Guinea, with comments on the taxonomic history of pri
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The first female specimen of the poorly known Arfak Stout-tailed Snake, Calamophis sharonbrooksae Murphy, 2012 (Serpentes: Colubroidea: Homalopsidae), from the Vogelkop Peninsula of Indonesian West New Guinea, with comments on the taxonomic history of pri
The recent resurrection of Calamophis Meyer, 1874, type species C. jobiensis, from thesynonymy of Brachyorrhos Kuhl in Schlegel, 1826, and the description of three new species of Calamophis,have changed concepts of homalopsid diversity in the Vogelkop Peninsula of West NewGuinea. Both Brachyorrhos and Calamophis are now accepted to comprise four species each andare considered representatives of a unique fangless, nonvenomous, terrestrial to semi-fossorial,homalopsid lineage. With the original and only specimen of C. jobiensis lost, the genus Calamophisis now characterized by only six specimens (4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀), comprising holotypes and paratypes ofthe remaining three species; in each case the species is defined only by specimens of a singlesex. We here present the description of the first female specimen of C. sharonbrooksae, the largestspecimen of the genus discovered so far, which exhibits a slightly longer body (96% of SVLvs. 91%) and a higher ventral scale count (158 vs. 149 or 150) than the two males, combined with asignificantly shorter tail (4.4% of total length vs. 8.6%) and a lower subcaudal scale count (12 pairsvs. 17 or 19 pairs). This is the first time both sexes of a Calamophis species have been availablefor comparison. The specimen is also the first mainland Papuan Calamophis documented outsidethe administrative boundaries of the Manokwari Residency, suggesting a wider distribution for thegenus than previously thought.
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