Australiasis amethystinus clarki (Barbour, 1914)

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 38

Australiasis amethystinus clarki (Barbour, 1914) [synonym of Morelia amethistina]

Synonyms:

Austroliasis amethystinus clarki (Barbour) - Hoser 2000 (APP4)

Australiasis amethystina clarki (Barbour) - Hoser 2004 (APP4)

Australiasis clarki (Barbour) - Hoser 2009 (APP8, see introduction)

Remarks:

Hoser (2000) resurrected this taxon from the synonymy of Morelia amethistina and placed it along with the nominal form amethistina amethistina and the taxon timorensis Peters, 1877 (APP4, incorrect subsequent spelling of timoriensis Peters, 1877) into the genus " Austroliasis ". This generic name constitutes an incorrect subsequent spelling (APP4) of the genus Australiasis Wells and Wellington 1984. Harvey et al. (2000) examined the holotype of Liasis clarki Barbour and found it to be "conspecific with Morelia amethistina , rather than Morelia kinghorni " ( Harvey et al. 2000: 155) and documented that "at least some snakes from [the Torres Strait] islands are Morelia amethistina (e.g., the Murray Islands where the type Liasis clarki was collected)" ( Harvey et al. 2000: 162). Until further studies have evaluated the taxonomic status of this population, this taxon is placed in the synonymy of Morelia amethistina . Henderson and Powell (2007) did not recognize this taxon.