MCZ Herpetology R-118928

Simalia boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)

Date Collected:

1966-05-10

Oceania: Papua New Guinea: Eastern Highlands Province | Kainantu area

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Current Identification
Simalia boeleni (Brongersma, 1953) linked data icon
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Henophidia Pythonidae
Determiner: Danny Rhoda on 2024-08-22
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identifications
Python boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Henophidia Boidae
Determiner: Leviton
Nature of ID: migration
Remarks: Leviton/?
Liasis boeleni
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Serpentes Henophidia Boidae
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: migration

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  • collector number: 239(or 8)
  • muse location number: ZR118928

Part Condition Disposition Count
skull and jaw (dry) good in collection 1 History (6)
Remarks: skull + jaw - River Pfaff, 2024-19-09
skull-less whole animal (70% ethanol) good in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
head width 9.85 mm By: Danny Rhoda, Method: calipers 2024-08-22
Remarks: measured on the dry skull, so this is the SKULL width, measurement taken on the left side of the specimen

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  • body housed in SST4 | The following measurements were taken from the left side of the specimen by Danny Rhoda in August 2024: length of the anterior most point of the dentary to the intramandibular joint = 26.18 mm distance between anterior most point of dentary and posterior most point of the posterodorsal process = 44.94 mm distance between the intramandibular joint and the posterior most point of the posterodorsal process = 20.53 mm length of the compound bone = 57.7 mm length of the mandibular fossa (in-lever of the jaw adductor) = 26.29 mm length of the quadrate bone = 20 mm length of the supratemporal bone = 25.39 mm length of the ectopterygoid bone = 23.11 mm length of the pterygoid bone = 53.14 mm length of the pterygoid's tooth row = 21.18 mm length of the palatine bone = 19.78 mm length of the palatine's tooth row = 17.72 mm length of the maxilla bone = 46.98 mm length of the maxilla's tooth row = 46.98 mm.

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  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Papua New Guinea
  • State/Province:
  • Eastern Highlands Province
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000850 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Kainantu area
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • New Guinea:Kainantu area
  • Georeference:
  • -6.2889492°, 145.862318° (Error radius: 3.352km) By: Carla H. Kishinami on 2007-03-21 (Source: Map: Royal Australian Survey Corps, Kainantu, sheet #8085 (Edition 1) Series T601, 1979.##1:100,000)
  • Datum:
  • AGD66
  • Radial of Feature:
  • 3250 m
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1966-05-10
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 10/5/1966-10/5/1966
  • Collector:
  • J. Higginbotham

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Media type: text; Herpetology R-118901; R-118902; R-118903; R-118904; R-118905; R-118906; R-118907; R-118908; R-118909; R-118910; R-118911; R-118912; R-118913; R-118914; R-118915; R-118916; R-118917; R-118918; R-118919; R-118920; R-118921; R-118922; R-118923; R-118924; R-118925; R-118926; R-118927; R-118928; R-118929; R-118930; R-118931; R-118932; R-118933; R-118934; R-118935; R-118936; R-118937; R-118938; R-118939; R-118940; R-118941; R-118942; R-118943; R-118944; R-118945; R-118946; R-118947; R-118948; R-118949; R-118950 Description: MCZ Herpetology Reptiles 115051-124950, pg.78;

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