Stegonotus is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.. www.reptile-database.org. Species of the genus Stegonotus are native to Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea.
Species The genus Stegonotus contains 24 species which are recognized as being valid. Stegonotus admiraltiensis – Admiralty Islands ground snake Stegonotus aplini – Purari White ground snake Stegonotus aruensis – Aru Islands ground snake Stegonotus australis – Australian ground snake Stegonotus ayamaru – Ayamaru ground snake Stegonotus batjanensis – Bacan Island groundsnake, Batjan frog-eating snake Stegonotus borneensis – Borneo ground snake, Borneo frog-eating snake Stegonotus caligocephalus – Dark-headed Sabah ground snake Stegonotus cucullatus – Bird's Head Peninsula ground snake, slatey-grey snake Stegonotus derooijae – De Rooij's ground snake, Raja Ampat ground snake Stegonotus diehli – Diehl's little ground snake Stegonotus florensis – Flores ground snake Stegonotus guentheri – D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago ground snake, Milne Bay ground snake Stegonotus heterurus – Bismarck ground snake Stegonotus iridis – Iridescent ground snake, Rainbow ground ₪snake Stegonotus keyensis – Kei Islands ground snake Stegonotus lividus – Semau Island ground snake Stegonotus melanolabiatus – Black-lipped ground snake Stegonotus modestus – Moluccan ground snake, Maluku ground snake, northern frog-eating snake Stegonotus muelleri – Philippine ground snake Stegonotus nancuro – Timor ground snake Stegonotus parvus – Biak Island ground snake, common ground snake Stegonotus poechi – Pöch's ground snake Stegonotus reticulatus – Reticulated ground snake Stegonotus sutteri – Sumba ground snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Stegonotus.
Etymology
The specific name, aplini, is in honor of Australian herpetologist and mammalogist Kenneth Peter "Ken" Aplin. www.reptile-database.org.
The specific name, derooijae, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Nelly de Rooij. www.reptile-database.org.
The specific name, diehli, is in honor of German missionary Wilhelm Diehl (1874–1940), who collected herpetological specimens in New Guinea.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Stegonotus diehli, p. 72; S. guentheri, p. 111).
The specific name, guentheri, is in honor of German-born British herpetologist Albert Günther.
The specific name, muelleri, is in honor of German herpetologist Johannes Peter Müller.Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A-H-A (1854), p. 683.
The specific name, poechi, is in honor of Austrian ethnologist & anthropologist Rudolf Pöch. www.reptile-database.org.
The specific name, sutteri, is in honor of Swiss ornithologist Ernst Sutter. www.reptile-database.org.
References
Further reading Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus Stegonotus, pp. 364–365). Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G, Duméril A[-H-A] (1854). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Première partie. Comprenant l'histoire des serpents non venimeux. [=General Herpetology or the Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 7. First Part. Containing the Natural History of the Nonvenomous Snakes]. Paris: Roret. xvi + 780 pp. (Stegonotus, new genus, pp. 680–682; S. muelleri, new species, pp. 682–683). (in French). Ruane S, Richards SJ, McVay JD, Tjaturadi B, Krey K, Austin CC (2017). "Cryptic and non-cryptic diversity in New Guinea ground snakes of the genus Stegonotus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854: a description of four new species (Squamata: Colubridae)". Journal of Natural History 30: 1-28.