Aspidites ramsayi richardjonesii Hoser, 2000

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

Aspidites ramsayi richardjonesii Hoser, 2000 [junior synonym of Aspidites ramsayi panoptes]

Holotype:

WAM R34070.

Type locality:

near Port Hedland, Western Australia.

Remarks:

Aplin (2002) considered this taxon a nomen nudum. We disagree because Hoser (2000) provided characters that purport to differentiate this taxon from the "main race". Nevertheless, this taxon is indistinguishable from Aspidites ramsayi panoptes , as both taxa share the diagnostic characters and are only separated by "vast distance" ( Hoser 2000) (APP1, APP2) (also see Wüster et al. 2001). Without further data, these taxa must be treated as synonyms, with Aspidites ramsayi panoptes having priority.