A couple years ago, Mark O'Shea did a show in New Guinea and caught what he thought was a new species of python. Anyone know if anything ever came of it?
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Did anything ever happen with the "newly discovered" python?
Ryan Shackleton
Aug 25, 2003 11:51 PM
Replies (5)
JakeM
Aug 26, 2003 11:58 AM
From what I remember, it wasn't a new species. It was a spotted python--the only one that's ever been found in New Guinea.
Jake
CFoley
Aug 27, 2003 11:42 AM
Was that the episode when he found the rough scaled python?
I havent heard anything else about it either. Just seeing if we are both on the same page...
Ryan Shackleton
Aug 27, 2003 01:00 PM
If I remember right, it was the "tree crocodile" episode-they were looking for crocodile monitors(didn't find any) and found the python near the end of the show.
Trust
Aug 27, 2003 02:00 PM
Was it a new species, or the discovery of a known species in a place where it had not been known to occur before?
I know the episode you're talking about. He's in a boat and jumps out to grab it thinking it was an amethistine(sp?) but it wasn't.
rayhoser
Sep 08, 2003 06:40 AM
In accordance with the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature
which reads
"Recommendation 8A. Wide dissemination. Authors have a responsibility to ensure that new scientific names, nomenclatural acts, and information likely to affect nomenclature are made widely known."
I hereby announce recent publication of papers naming seven new taxa from the families Pythonidae and Elapidae.
Copies of the papers are at:
http://www.smuggled.com/pap1.htm
for those interested.
http://www.smuggled.com/PytRev11.htm
New Taxa of pythons from Australia
