Katrinus fuscus cornwallisius ( Guenther , 1879)

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 : 42

Katrinus fuscus cornwallisius ( Guenther, 1879) [junior synonym of Liasis fuscus]

Type locality:

Dauan (as Cornwallis) Island, Torres Straits, Australia.

Remarks:

Katrinus cornwallisius Günther, 1879 was resurrected from the synonymy of Liasis fuscus by Hoser (2000) for the Torres Strait islands and New Guinean populations. However, Rawlings et al. (2004) demonstrated that specimens from Queensland, the Torres Strait islands (Saibai), and New Guinea form a well-supported clade, which was considered the sister group to the clade comprising the Northern Territory and Indonesian populations. Since Queensland is the type locality of Liasis fuscus Peters, the resurrection of this name is unwarranted as it is a junior synonym to Liasis fuscus . The name cornwallisius is therefore placed into the synonymy of Liasis fuscus .