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| - The Pacific Boas, genus Candoia Gray, 1842, have been subject of intense taxonomic scrutiny in recent years. This has included dissections of the three widely recognized putative species. Candoia carinata has been most recently split into three full species and a total of ten regionally distinct subspecies (Smith et al. 2001). C. aspera split into three subspecies (Hoser, 2013) and C. bibroni has long been recognized as consisting of two named subspecies, although one of the used names has been misapplied by various authors and is in fact probably a nomen nudem. Taxonomic treatments of the genus (e. g. McDowell 1979) and molecular treatments of the genus (e. g. Austin 2000) have tended to uphold these divisions and shown clearly that if anything, the taxonomic diversity of the group has been grossly understated. Hoser 2013, utilized these results and formally described Candoia aspera iansimpsoni, this being the most recent addition to the genus. Furthermore, by using existing available nomenclature Hoser (2013) placed each of the three well- known putative species into subgenera. Hoser (2013) also for the first time moved all species into the newly erected family Candoiidae Hoser, 2013 as distinct from the Boidae. This paper is a result of drawing on these facts, and available specimens of the putative species C. bibroni, to create a taxonomy that more properly reflects the morphology and phylogeny. The complex has been divided into eleven species and one subspecies; all except C. bibroni named for the first time. The division is along obvious morphological and geographical lines and each population is clearly genetically distinct and isolated. By simple analysis they are all significantly divergent. They are therefore evolving as species in the ordinary sense of the word and should be treated as such. The taxonomy is robust and conservative and in its entirety, in every case reflects recent %22splits%22 of species across the exact same geographical barriers, likely to be affected by the same factors. This forms a necessary first step to preserving potentially threatened populations, which by virtue of their insular nature, must be treated as vulnerable. Furthermore it appears that the factor limiting the westward spread of the C. bibroni complex in the Solomon Islands has been the Brown Tree Snake, Boiga irregularis (Bechstein, 1802).
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| - The Pacific Boas, genus Candoia Gray, 1842, have been subject of intense taxonomic scrutiny in recent years. This has included dissections of the three widely recognized putative species. Candoia carinata has been most recently split into three full species and a total of ten regionally distinct subspecies (Smith et al. 2001). C. aspera split into three subspecies (Hoser, 2013) and C. bibroni has long been recognized as consisting of two named subspecies, although one of the used names has been misapplied by various authors and is in fact probably a nomen nudem. Taxonomic treatments of the genus (e. g. McDowell 1979) and molecular treatments of the genus (e. g. Austin 2000) have tended to uphold these divisions and shown clearly that if anything, the taxonomic diversity of the group has been grossly understated. Hoser 2013, utilized these results and formally described Candoia aspera iansimpsoni, this being the most recent addition to the genus. Furthermore, by using existing available nomenclature Hoser (2013) placed each of the three well- known putative species into subgenera. Hoser (2013) also for the first time moved all species into the newly erected family Candoiidae Hoser, 2013 as distinct from the Boidae. This paper is a result of drawing on these facts, and available specimens of the putative species C. bibroni, to create a taxonomy that more properly reflects the morphology and phylogeny. The complex has been divided into eleven species and one subspecies; all except C. bibroni named for the first time. The division is along obvious morphological and geographical lines and each population is clearly genetically distinct and isolated. By simple analysis they are all significantly divergent. They are therefore evolving as species in the ordinary sense of the word and should be treated as such. The taxonomy is robust and conservative and in its entirety, in every case reflects recent %22splits%22 of species across the exact same geographical barriers, likely to be affected by the same factors. This forms a necessary first step to preserving potentially threatened populations, which by virtue of their insular nature, must be treated as vulnerable. Furthermore it appears that the factor limiting the westward spread of the C. bibroni complex in the Solomon Islands has been the Brown Tree Snake, Boiga irregularis (Bechstein, 1802).
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| - Hoser, R. 2016. A review of the <em>Candoia bibroni </em>species complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Candoiidae: Candoia). <em>Australasian Journal of Herpetology</em>, 31: 39-61.
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