#parvavaranus

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 47:32-38. Published 9 July 2020. Two new hitherto overlooked species of Dwarf Goanna, Worrellisaurus Wells and Wellington, 1984, subgenus Parvavaranus Hoser, 2013 from Australia. TO BE ASSIGNED - LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:88C0C262-ABA2-4878-80D9-F85838DB90DD RAYMOND T. HOSER LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:784CF879-1F94-4F82-B3AE-7414FF271077 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 1 December 2020, Accepted 30 April 2020, Published 9 July 2020. ABSTRACT As part of a long-term taxonomic review of Australian varanid lizards by the author over a 40 year period, it has emerged that morphologically distinct and genetically divergent forms of two species of widely distributed Pygmy Monitors of the genus Worrellisaurus Wells and Wellington, 1984, subgenus Parvavaranus Hoser, 2013 remain unrecognized to science as of 2020. The purpose of this paper is to identify and formally name these new species. They can be readily identified and separated from the nominate form of each closely related species on the basis of morphology. Furthermore previously published studies involving the analysis of DNA has shown species-level divergences for the relevant putative taxa. It is for this reason I have not hesitated to recognise each taxon as full species. I have no doubt that a group of thieves known as the Wolfgang Wüster gang, will make a lot of “noise” following the publication of this paper and falsely accuse this author of “taxonomic vandalism”. Then a few years down the track, when the obvious can no longer be ignored, they will attempt to steal this work and illegally rename the very same species as done by Bucklitsch et al. (2016) at Wüster’s instigation, when they illegally renamed two varanid genera previously named by Hoser (2013). The unlawfully coined name Hapturosaurus Bucklitsch, Böhme and Koch, 2016, published in (PRINO = peer reviewed in name only) online “journal” Zootaxa is a junior synonym of the correct legal name Shireenhosersaurea Hoser, 2013. Solomonsaurus Bucklitsch, Böhme and Koch, 2016 is a junior synonym of the correct legal name Oxysaurus Hoser, 2013. The genus-level taxonomy used in this paper is that used in Hoser (2013) and not the illegally coined names of Wüster’s gang of thieves including Bucklitsch et al. (2016). I note that as of 2020 the ICZN names of Hoser are those that are being widely accepted by scientists as the most logical for the Australian varanids (see for example Cogger 2014 and Dubois et al. 2019, both of whom condemned the Wüster gang of thieves). The Hoser names are the ones that are fully compliant with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999). Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; Goanna; Monitor lizard; Varanidae; Varanus; Worrellisaurus; Parvavaranus; South Australia; Northern Territory; Western Australia, Queensland, Australia; Shireenhosersaurea; Hapturosaurus; Oxysaurus; Solomonsaurus; eremius; brevicauda; sparnus; new species; apicemalba; ignis; new subspecies; pyrhus.

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 47:32-38. Published 9 July 2020. INTRODUCTION As part of a long-term taxonomic review of Australian varanid lizards by the author over a 40 year period, the genus-level classification of the Varanidae globally was reviewed and revised by Hoser (2013). This classification has been widely accepted in the five years since then, including by regular critics of my scientific works known as the Wüster gang of thieves, who have even sought to illegally rename genera first formally named in the Hoser (2013) paper in Bucklitsch et al. (2016) as detailed by Hoser (2017). Therefore the genus-level classification of Hoser (2013) is used throughout this paper. The nefarious and often illegal activities of the Wüster gang of thieves are detailed in Hoser (2015a-f) and sources cited therein. Post year 2000 papers naming new taxa of Australian varanid include the following: Doughty et al. (2014), Hoser (2013, 2014, 2015g, 2018a, 2018b, 2018c, 2018d), Maryan et al. (2014). The post year 2000 varanid taxa named in Australia by these Two new hitherto overlooked species of Dwarf Goanna, Worrellisaurus Wells and Wellington, 1984, subgenus Parvavaranus Hoser, 2013 from Australia. TO BE ASSIGNED - LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:88C0C262-ABA2-4878-80D9-F85838DB90DD RAYMOND T. HOSER LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:784CF879-1F94-4F82-B3AE-7414FF271077 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 1 December 2020, Accepted 30 April 2020, Published 9 July 2020. ABSTRACT As part of a long-term taxonomic review of Australian varanid lizards by the author over a 40 year period, it has emerged that morphologically distinct and genetically divergent forms of two species of widely distributed Pygmy Monitors of the genus Worrellisaurus Wells and Wellington, 1984, subgenus Parvavaranus Hoser, 2013 remain unrecognized to science as of 2020. The purpose of this paper is to identify and formally name these new species. They can be readily identified and separated from the nominate form of each closely related species on the basis of morphology. Furthermore previously published studies involving the analysis of DNA has shown species-level divergences for the relevant putative taxa. It is for this reason I have not hesitated to recognise each taxon as full species. I have no doubt that a group of thieves known as the Wolfgang Wüster gang, will make a lot of “noise” following the publication of this paper and falsely accuse this author of “taxonomic vandalism”. Then a few years down the track, when the obvious can no longer be ignored, they will attempt to steal this work and illegally rename the very same species as done by Bucklitsch et al. (2016) at Wüster’s instigation, when they illegally renamed two varanid genera previously named by Hoser (2013). The unlawfully coined name Hapturosaurus Bucklitsch, Böhme and Koch, 2016, published in (PRINO = peer reviewed in name only) online “journal” Zootaxa is a junior synonym of the correct legal name Shireenhosersaurea Hoser, 2013. Solomonsaurus Bucklitsch, Böhme and Koch, 2016 is a junior synonym of the correct legal name Oxysaurus Hoser, 2013. The genus-level taxonomy used in this paper is that used in Hoser (2013) and not the illegally coined names of Wüster’s gang of thieves including Bucklitsch et al. (2016). I note that as of 2020 the ICZN names of Hoser are those that are being widely accepted by scientists as the most logical for the Australian varanids (see for example Cogger 2014 and Dubois et al. 2019, both of whom condemned the Wüster gang of thieves). The Hoser names are the ones that are fully compliant with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999). Keywords: Taxonomy; nomenclature; Goanna; Monitor lizard; Varanidae; Varanus; Worrellisaurus; Parvavaranus; South Australia; Northern Territory; Western Australia, Queensland, Australia; Shireenhosersaurea; Hapturosaurus; Oxysaurus; Solomonsaurus; eremius; brevicauda; sparnus; new species; apicemalba; ignis; new subspecies; pyrhus.