| a new species of toxicocalamus (squamata: elapidae) from papua new guinea. | i describe a new species of the fossorial elapid snake genus toxicocalamus from mt. simpson, milne bay province, in southeastern new guinea. the new species is similar to the poorly diagnosed t. loriae but differs from that species (and all other toxicocalamus with the preocular distinct from the prefrontal) in having the preocular not in contact with the nasal and in having a pale-gray or yellow venter with gray bands across each ventral scale. the new species came from elevations of 1300-1490 ... | 2020 | 33056208 |