midnight lute ( foaled may 13 , 2003 , in versailles , kentucky ) is an american thoroughbred racehorse .

he was named american champion sprint horse in 2007 .

midnight lute

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. . . both govenor charlie and midnight lucky are trained by the sire of midnight lute , bob baffert .
i doubt baffert sired midnight lute .
a chorus of midnight lute ' s progeny are drumming up wins across the country . last weekend , midnight lute ' s son
evans described his thought process when purchasing the dam of midnight lute , the unraced dehere mare candytuft .
midnight lute ' s female family is filled with a mix of american speed and italian stamina . his dam candytuft
baffert had teamed up to campaign midnight lute ' s sire real quiet to a heartbreaking triple crown miss in 1998 .
midnight lute , trained by bob baffert , won the 2007 breeders & # 39 ; cup sprint at churchil downs .
with a sunland park double in their derby and oaks , hill ‘n ' dale farm ' s young sire midnight lute scored successes that confound simple analysis of stallion potential and performance . the stallion ' s son govenor charlie won the sunland park derby by five lengths for owner - breeder mike pegram , and the midnight lute filly midnight lucky won the sunland park oaks by eight lengths for pegram , watson , and weitman , who also campaigned midnight lute . both are trained by bob baffert , as were midnight lute and his sire , real quiet .
the breeding of midnight lute is a fascinating study in what can be accomplished with modest amounts of money  and plenty of luck .
like the empire maker and the mares prospective foal for 2008 , midnight lute was a may foal , but that doesnt bother evans .
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and the breeder has not ended his relationship with midnight lute , who has retired to stand at hill n dale for a $ 20 , 000 fee . evans said , i really like midnight lute as a stallion prospect , although i understand hes not by the hottest sire around .
six weeks ago , 3 - year - olds govenor charlie and midnight lucky both broke their maidens in impressive fashion at santa anita during the same weekend shakin it up provided midnight lute with his first graded stakes winner as a sire .
the lute society has the rarer instruments ( lute , cittern , bandora and wooden flutes ) for hire , and can supply sheet music . the lute parts are very hard , but after a couple of years of playing the lute you might well be able to manage the bandora parts without too much difficulty—ask to have a go on a bandora next time you go on a lute - based summer school !
scored victories in the sunland derby and oaks . both of them set new track records ; govenor charlie for 1 1 / 8 miles in 1”47 . 54 and midnight lucky for 1 1 / 16 miles in 1 : 41 . 06 . fittingly , both govenor charlie and midnight lucky are trained by the sire of midnight lute ,
midnight lute retired to stud at hill ' n ' dale farms in kentucky for a fee of $ 20k typical of a first year stallion , his fee was dropped to $ 15k after his initial season and remains steady . there was great demand for the good looking stallion and midnight lute sired 121 foals in his first crop .
her continued development , along with that of govenor charlie , shakin it up , and several other up - and - comers , such as stakes winner midnight ballet , sharp oaklawn winner big lute , and fair grounds - based mylute , will only enhance midnight lute’s stature in the coming months . mylute finished a game second to revolutionary in the louisiana derby on march 30 , and could be yet another member of midnight lute ' s first - crop brigade to resurface at churchill downs in five weeks .
shakin it up ( midnight lute - silverbulletmoon [ vindication ] ) : won the 7f g2 - san vicente but finished a distant 4th to govenor charlie in the sunland derby .
norman stables’ silent bird got his first graded stakes victory on saturday , holding off tough sunday by a head to win the grade 3 midnight lute . a 5 - year - old son of summer bird trained by mark glatt , silent bird donned blinkers for the first time in the midnight lute . jockey kent desormeaux moved him up the [ … ]
lexington , ky .  with an astonishing finish to win the six - furlong breeders cup sprint in 1 : 07 . 08 , midnight lute joined tiznow , miesque , da hoss , and lure as repeat winners of a breeders cup event . this is a special distinction for midnight lute because he is the first two - time winner of the sprint .
another take on the potential of midnight lute as a stallion comes from my associate at datatrack international , pedigree commentator robert fierro . he noted that , on the results of the stallion ' s biomechanical profile , “we loved midnight lute . his profile on one of our programs was very unusual for a horse his size , in that he matches nearly 50 percent of the mares in our test book . that is very unusual for a horse as big as midnight lute , ” who towers over man and beast at 17 hands - plus .
with only two crops on the track , it ' s a bit hard to take an actual account of his runners . but so far , midnight lute has gotten four really good runners :
marjac farms is rich and patti burke , who lived in louisville when midnight lute was born and now live in richmond , va . rich burke manages marjac capital partners , an investment company .
in 2008 , midnight lute raced only twice as a 5 - year - old , but did annex a second consecutive breeders’ cup sprint before retiring to stud at hill ‘n’ dale in lexington , ky . baffert said upon midnight lute’s retirement that the horse was the best he’d ever trained , and those who follow the popular conditioner’s @ midnightlute twitter account are reminded of that every time they receive a message from baffert .
a dead - heat winner of the midnight lute stakes ( g3 ) with solid wager at 6 1 / 2 furlongs new year ' s eve for trainer peter miller . the 5 - year - old gelding by
midnight oil taught me that citizens not only need a soundtrack for resistance , but we also need to resist .
i guess i have no brain . the good news is , thanks to midnight oil , i’ve got heart .
a final research project ( minimum 15 pages ) on the film adaptations of henry v or chimes at midnight .
baffert pegged midnight lute as a special horse from the start , but this is a story of “what might have been . ” standing 17 hands high , the muscular colt made his debut in late july of his two year old season . in what would become his typical running style , midnight lute was away from the gate slow , made a wide move on the outside and mowed down his competition in a powerful late run , getting up to win the six furlong race by 1 ¼ lengths . midnight lute was away from the races for a year , due to a throat issue , necessitating in surgery . this hampered the colt ' s ability to perform at longer distances .
his yearling average took a dip last year , which is not uncommon in this era as stallions move beyond their first crop at auction , but midnight lute was represented by a $ 230 , 000 juvenile at the recent barretts march selected two - year - olds in training sale . sikura is optimistic about the yearling auctions this summer , which may , based on recent evidence , come on the heels of several more graded stakes wins by midnight lute runners .
midnight lute ' s progeny are proving to be mid - season two year olds that improve with age . most carry their sire ' s looks and conformation . his offspring have won over dirt , turf , polytrack , cushion track and tapita from 5 ½ furlongs to 1 1 / 8 miles . we won ' t know how far midnight lute ' s babies will run until they actually prove it , however , given their two - turn conformation and the pedigree of their sire , it wouldn’t be far - fetched to see a son or daughter of midnight lute wearing a wreath of roses , stargazer lilies , black - eyed susans , carnations , or yellow and purple chrysanthemums very soon .
midnight lucky ( midnight lute - citiview [ city dancer ] ) : the star of the sunland derby card when she set a ntr and obliterated the field in the sunland oaks . a really dynamic filly that seems to be able to get any distance she will want to . really pretty mover and definitley a factor in the 3yo filly division this year .
as mentioned , midnight lute stands 17 hands high and is a long - bodied , muscular horse . it appears that he received his large , rangy frame from his second sire , quiet american , who himself stands 16 ½ hands high .
midnight lute stood for $ 20 , 000 in his initial season at hill ‘n’ dale , and according to farm president john g . sikura , he has been popular from the outset . baffert said in february after shakin it up’s win in the san vicente that he always felt midnight lute was at his core a longer - distance horse who , due to low lung capacity , was restricted to sprint races , and sikura echoed that opinion when discussing his potential as a stallion .
once back in training , midnight lute began to fulfill his potential during 2006 and early 2007 , winning a grade 3 event at seven furlongs and competing well in longer - distance graded stakes in california in january and february of 2007 . he suffered another health - related delay during early summer , but when he returned midnight lute was at the top of his game . he dominated both the forego stakes and the breeders’ cup sprint that fall , earning the eclipse award as champion sprinter .
following midnight lute , the breeders sent candytuft to gilded time to produce the stakes - placed tusculum road , and they caught the brass ring when selling the mares yearling by marias mon at the september sale this year for $ 900 , 000 .
to date , midnight lute has sired three stakes winners and 19 winners from 64 starters lifetime . he stands at the top of the second crop sire list in terms of earnings and is tied for first with number of stakes winners . as he did on the racetrack , midnight lute is out - performing a solid group of stallions at stud , which include two - time horse of the year curlin , kentucky derby winner big brown , international sensation henrythenavigator and the two year old champion war pass .
hill ‘n’ dale farms stallion midnight lute might have made his name on the racetrack as a top sprinter , but his first crop is swiftly remaking his reputation this spring as one of the most promising young sires of middle - distance runners in north america .
some of the english lute manuscripts make for satisfying self - contained musical programmes , and have attracted single - source recordings . some years ago anthony rooley made a record ( on the oiseau lyre label ) of the cozens lute book . more recently paul o’dette has made a cd from lord herbert of cherbury’s lute book ( harmonia mundi ) ; jacob heringman has made a cd from jane pickering’s lute book ( avie ) ; oswald hebermehl has made a disc from margaret board’s lute book ( amu records ) , and most recently liz kenny has made a cd flying horse , music of the ml lute book ( hyperion ) . from among the continental sources with quite a lot of english music , joachim held has made a cd of the schele ms ( hannsler ) .
one of the implications of midnight lute ' s results on his biomechanics is that it appeared he would get racers who would appreciate racing two turns , rather than simply sprinting , as many people would have expected from a racehorse who was “limited” to sprinting himself .
midnight lute ' s offspring are consistently showing that they appreciate the opportunity to mature and race distances of a mile , at least , and there is plenty of reason to expect that they will continue to improve at even longer distances as opportunities come to them .
govenor charlie ( midnight lute - silverbulletway [ storm cat ] ) : convincing winner of the g3 - sunland derby and a horse that will be vying for the lead in the kentucky derby . he has a slightly odd way of moving , but shows good early speed .
two noses shy of being unbeaten , trainer bill spawr’s midnight bisou put it all together on sunday at santa anita as she rolled to an emphatic 4 ½ length win in the grade ii , $ 200 , 000 santa ynez stakes . piloted by “big money” mike smith for the first time , the kentucky - bred daughter of midnight lute got seven furlongs in 1 : 23 . 40 while defeating [ … ]
although midnight lute showed his best form by clubbing his contemporaries with come from behind finishes at sprint distances , he did race successfully at longer distances , and his natural aptitude was clearly suitable for racing at longer distances from his size , scope , balance , and physical proportions .
lute manuscripts are as richly varied as the people who played from them . a recently discovered fragment in the westiminster abbey archive looks like a lesson of several pieces written out on a loose sheet of paper for a student ; the dallis lute book is a cambridge student’s workbook , from the very beginning of his lute studies ; the giles lodge book is the musical sketch book of musically semi - literate amateur , perhaps a schoolmaster ; jane pickering’s and margaret board’s lute books are the collections of more competent and serious amateur players ; lord herbert of cherbury’s lute book reveals a refined gentleman amateur who , by modern standards at least , would have been good enough to play professionally ; the welde lute book seems to have been written by a professional scribe , either speculatively or as a commission for a wealthy amateur lute player , while royal appendix 58 is a performing partbook and score , one of a set of partbooks in use in at court by multi - instrumentalist court musicians .
and what happened to charles dawes , the other midnight rider ? he also rode through the countryside warning the colonists of the oncoming british regulars .
given those connections , it was no surprise when pegram purchased midnight lucky for $ 220 , 000 at the fasig - tipton saratoga select yearling sale . a year and a half later , the filly has displayed a breathtaking degree of raw talent in only two races that may , in the end , make her the best of what is shaping up to be a very good , and possibly great , first crop for midnight lute .
but in addition to midnight lute , trackside has been co - breeder of english group 1 winner bahamian pirate , jim dandy winner strong hope , and other good racers , as well as raising and selling numerous graded or group stakes winners for foxfield , liberation farm , and other clients .
a resounding champion as a sprinter on the racetrack with victories at 4 and 5 in the grade 1 breeders ' cup sprint , midnight lute was not pedigreed to be a specialist sprinter , and his performance at stud has been in keeping with his bloodlines , more so than his racetrack performances .
potential favorite for the grade 1 kentucky oaks , midnight bisou breezed at santa anita park at about 4 : 30 a . m . on sunday morning . according to drf . com , the 3 - year - old daughter of midnight lute covered five furlongs in 1 : 01 . 60 under jockey martin pedroza . “she’s getting better , ” trainer bill spawr said . “she’s scary . her bodyweight is right . she’s confident in [ … ]
mylute ( midnight lute - stage stop [ valid expectations ] ) : not a stakes winner , but a 2nd in the g2 - louisiana derby gets him into the kentucky derby a week from today . seems to be a nice colt , but not entirely sure he ' s absolutely top quality .
the dark brown , nearly black , horse was bred by a trio who have emphasized quality over quantity in their breeding decisions . tom evans , marjac farms , and macon wilmil equine bred midnight lute in kentucky , where he was foaled and raised at the trackside farm of evans and pam clark .
midnight lute ' s second damsire blue times ( by olden times ) won two stakes races at 1 1 / 8 miles . his male line traces directly back to man o ' war through his greatest son war relic . blue times ' damsire was a lesser son of the claiborne foundation sire princequello .
the empire maker colt will be in a yearling sale next year . evans said , he is more similar to midnight lute than her other foals have been . he has that length to him , and you can see a lot of potential there . it will be fun watching him grow up .
as the ' 80s turned into the ' 90s , sincerity made way for irony and grunge and the midnight oils returned to the middle of the pack .
the lute society publishes five english facsimiles , with plans for many more , plus free transcriptions and / or photographs of some of the very minor sources .
pinhooked the following spring to the sales of juveniles in training in florida , midnight lute was an rna at $ 290 , 000 and sold after the auction . trainer bob baffert , who had selected real quiet at auction , was instrumental in the acquisition of the stallion ' s best racing son for pegram and partners .
christmas 1995 - midnight angel . a very attractive stamp with a dark blue starry background , a christmas angel , a christmas wreath , and bells . on… | pinteres…
midnight lute ( usa ) dkb / br . h , 2003 { 3 - j } dp = 4 - 5 - 5 - 2 - 0 ( 16 ) di = 2 . 56 cd = 0 . 69 - 13 starts , 6 wins , 3 places , 1 shows career earnings : $ 2 , 690 , 600
last and greatest , robert dowland’s varietie of lute lessons ( 1610 ) self - consciously presents a selection of some of the finest european lute music of its time ; it is available in facsimile from schott . in spite of the title , there is no beginner’s music here ; it represents something to work towards in your studies .
shrouded in controversy since his debut nearly four years ago , top sprinter masochistic is set to make his first start since early may as he heads a field of nine 3 - year - olds and up in saturday’s grade 3 midnight lute stakes at santa anita . idle since distanced over a wet fast track going seven furlongs in the [ … ]
in its long history the lute experienced not one , but a series of ‘golden ages’ , and elizabethan and jacobean england certainly enjoyed one of these . the chief glory and ornament of the elizabethan lute is of course the music of john dowland ( 1563–1626 ) which , if no other lute music at all had come down to us , would amply justify the study of the instrument . happily , a good deal more music has survived , however . the following sketch is intended to convey useful information for the beginner .
here ' s the kicker : govenor charlie , midnight lucky , and shakin it up are all raced by mike pegram . they were also bred by mike pegram . midnight lute was exactly the same , so the bloodline and connections are money . but that ' s the sign of a major owner showing absolute faith in his own stallion that he takes everything he owns mare - wise to him . and it takes that kind of support from your connections that really make or break a stallion ( read : kitten ' s joy ) .
unlike u2 or r . e . m . , midnight oil were less ambiguous about kicking ass onstage , and their live shows are legendary for leaving venues in agitprop shambles . “if you’re singing a song about huge piles of nuclear weapons , you’re unlikely to be playing a harp or plucking a lute , ” peter garrett told the ottawa citize n in 1985 .
bloom racing stable and allen racing’s midnight bisou continued her dominance of the west coast 3 - year - old filly division on saturday , rallying from far back to win the grade 1 santa anita oaks by 3 1 / 2 lengths under mike smith , who also won the g1 santa anita derby aboard justify . trained by bill spawr , midnight bisou , [ … ]
as a sire , real quiet did manage to get 16 stakes winners and a champion . besides midnight lute , real quiet ' s most notable runners are the sprinter / miler pussycat doll , two - time winner of the humana distaff ( g - 1 ) and wonder lady anne l , heroine of the 1 ¼ mile cca oaks ( g - 1 ) .
( dehere - bolt from the blue , by blue times ) was unraced . besides midnight lute , candytuft bore his half brother multiple stakes - placed sprinter captain cherokee ( by sir cherokee ) and a stakes placed half sister tusculum rd ( by gilded time ) . in all , she has seven foals who made it to the track and six of them have won .
fierro continued , “in size , midnight lute is in a category of his own . stallions like him usually project to be modest at best , but what tipped the scale for him is that he matched a number of modest - sized mares , which is unusual but very beneficial , as the norms of the breed tend to breed toward the horses of that size . ”
not surprisingly then , the largest surviving oeuvre is that of ‘the english orpheus’ , john dowland , with 75 pieces ( plus 16 - odd possible attributions ) . his collected lute music , edited by his great scholar and apostle , diana poulton ( with basil lam ) is published by faber , and should be on every lute scholar’s christmas list . more of him hereafter .
an accredited louisiana - bred daughter of midnight lute sold for $ 77 , 000 on monday to top the equine sales company 2 - year - olds in training and horses of racing age sale in opelousas , la . named nite jean , the sale - topper went to prominent southwest owner carl moore from the consignment of pike racing , agent . the may foal worked an eighth [ … ]
nor is evans concerned with the breathing problem that compromised part of midnight lutes career . he said , i dont believe it is a genetic issue at all . as a yearling he had a great throat , as well as when he was at the 2 - year - old sales . i guess he had something go wrong during the summer of his 2 - year - old season .
midnight disguise rallied from last to earn her second straight stakes win , charging home a 1 ¾ - length winner in the 39th running of the $ 200 , 000 busher for 3 - year - old fillies at a mile on saturday at aqueduct racetrack . under regular jockey trevor mccarthy , midnight disguise was unhurried through the early going , settling at the back of the pack as california invader [ … ]
revere wrote a letter in 1798 to the founder of the massachusetts historical society describing his midnight ride . nothing in his letter indicates that he waited and watched to see the lanterns in the church tower .
this is not surprising , as the stallion ' s sire is the champion and premier 10 - furlong performer real quiet , whose best races came with victories in the kentucky derby , preakness , and pimlico special . as a sire , real quiet did not reproduce himself with a classic - winning colt . his best son was midnight lute , although some of his best daughters performed at the highest level at classic distances .
in 2008 , midnight lute came back to race twice as a five year old . he recorded the worst finish of his career in the pat o ' brian stakes ( g - 2 ) over the del mar polytrack . however , in his swan song the champ went out on a high note , winning his second consecutive breeders ' cup sprint in 1 : 07 , the fastest time in the history of the race .
midnight lute is the mares fourth foal . evans said that sire selection was done based on budgetary concerns and physical compatibility . real quiet is a big , stretchy , athletic horse , who has a beautiful profile , and candytuft is a solid , correct , attractive mare . and mating her with the fappiano line , which typically puts stretch into foals like you see with the unbridleds , worked out well with this mare .
when looking at real quiet ' s progeny , you see a dearth of true top end talent . midnight lute tops his list of earners and there are only two others that won more than $ 750 , 000 in sunward run and pussycat doll . he also got wonder lady ann l , winner of the g1 - cca oaks . real quiet died at 15 in 2010 following an accident in his paddock after siring 11 crops of foals . he was by no means a dominant sire , but instead was just a useful one . as a sign of his productivity , he stood in pennsylvania and shuttled to uruguay during the summer months . real quiet was campaigned by mike pegram and trained by bob baffert ( a trend we will see repeated over and over herein ) . real quiet has no sons standing at stud of any note other than midnight lute .
“there’s a lot of prospects out there , and we’re excited , and we’re sure that there’s many more in the wings , ” sikura said . “the more they win , and the more important fixtures that come under midnight lute’s banner , the more his yearlings will bring . . . . if he has a derby winner , or an oaks winner , or a travers winner , certainly they’re more appreciated in the auction ring . ”
in definitiva , midnight . swordfight . di chandler groover è un divertissement che prende per mano l ' avventuriero esortandolo a danzare in un giardino panoramico in cui sia stata edificata una follia dal capriccio di un architetto estroso .
“ [ midnight lute’s reputation ] is really a misnomer because the horse is not a sprinter , he was backed up after throat surgery , ” sikura said . “he was backed up to be a sprinter ; it was an adaptation . the horse’s true aptitude , i believe , is a mile and a quarter , i think that’s what he would have been best at . he was just a big , freaky racehorse that could adapt and do anything .
the musician thomas whytehorn , in his autobiography of c . 1575 marvelled at the wide currency of printed music he had seen on his continental travels ; in england , you had to write everything out by hand . about 50 - odd english lute manuscripts with music in renaissance tuning survive in the british isles , plus maybe 15 or 16 continental manuscripts with items of english lute music , plus various odds and ends . another fragment turns up every year or two .
midnight lute is a peculiar case study as a stallion . he only succeeded at distances we consider sprints , but he ' s most definitely not bred to run short distances . it is well known that he had a chronic throat issue that caused him to really struggle when stretched out to a distance that forced him to take more than one big breath and just take off . in fact , we were looking to breed a mare to him last year , but decided against it precisely because of the breathing issue . his trainer , bob baffert , thought so much of him that he always has fully endorsed the idea that midnight lute was not limited to sprints due to his own ability , in fact , had his throat not been a major hindrance , he would easily have competed at route distances . bob clearly considers him one of his best horses of all time to the point that baffert ' s twitter handle is @ midnightlute .
it’s hard to understate the sincerity of ' 80s alternative rock . what midnight oil taught me and others is that citizens need a soundtrack for resistance , sure , but we also need to organize and and be politically active . like most socially conscious bands in the ’80s , midnight oil set up tables outside their gigs for greenpeace , rock the vote , and planned parenthood . as the ' 80s turned into the ' 90s , midnight oil , for american fans at least , represented one of those bands for people who couldn’t get enough u2 , couldn’t get enough sincerity , and so turned to the latest offerings from the alarm or the call , or , for the more adventurous , michelle shocked or billy bragg .
typically , big time sires will have one , maybe two top end runners in any given year on the road to the roses . maybe they ' re lucky and have a filly that ' s gunning for the oaks . if your first crop is doing that , you ' re unbelievable . and midnight lute , with his first crop turning 3 this year , has done just that : he ' s got two derby starters and a serious contender in the kentucky oaks .
if you get hooked on duets , the john johnson and thomas robinson editions noted in the previous instalment of this article would be worth acquiring . the lute society catalogue of tablature sheets contains a further sprinkling of duets , english and continental ; ask the secretary if you are interested . one of the charms of the lute is the opportunities it offers for social as well as solo music making and the student is commended not to be shy , but to seek out duet partners !
one exception was midnight lute ' s co - breeder trackside farm , whose owner tom evans said , “real quiet had runners by the time we decided to send candytuft to him , and in addition to fitting the stud fee range we could afford for the mare , the reason to make that mating was that i loved real quiet ' s profile . he was a really beautiful horse , and we thought the match was what the mare needed to add some stretch to the foal . ”
midnight lute , a strapping son of real quiet out of the unraced dehere mare candytuft , was the first top - of - the - line horse campaigned by the partnership of pegram , watson , weitman , and baffert , and as a juvenile he won first out in the summer of 2005 at del mar . the colt did not race again for a year , however , as respiratory problems developed that would stall his career more than once and cause him to miss the triple crown season .
midnight lucky entered the sunland park oaks as one of the most talked - about horses in the country following her smashing debut win in february , in which she earned a 100 beyer , and the filly left new mexico with even more hype after she obliterated the competition in an eight - length romp . midnight lucky traveled 1 1 / 16 miles in 1 : 41 . 06 , good for a 94 beyer and another track record ( one of three set march 24 on sunland’s speed - favoring oval ) .
this spring , midnight oil embarks on their first world tour in more than 15 years . the australian band that hit worldwide charts in 1987 with “beds are burning” disbanded back in 2002 , when lead singer peter garrett entered politics full - time and served in a number of positions in the australian government , a second career that lasted more than 11 years . the last time midnight oil toured the us was october 2001 , weeks after september 11 and then - new president george w . bush ramping up the case for the iraq invasion . cut to 2017 , and midnight oil’s six - month , 50 - date great circle tour brings garrett and bandmates to a united states under a trump administration angling to roll back environmental protections , pillage natural resources , and generally mess up the world .
as for the really small fry , the indefatigable john robinson , has been gradually trawling them up in lute society tablature sheets over the years , and there are some ‘one - hit wonders’ there certainly . ask for our catalogue if you want to investigate further .
a survey of english music in continental prints and manuscripts , which are available in facsimile , is beyond the present writer’s competence . publishers include tree , minkoff , frits knuf , and the dutch lute society . would anyone care to write a short piece on this ?
midnight , swordfight was an ifcomp 2015 game . this game is a one - move game like aisle or rematch , where you are in a duel with a countess and have only limited actions available . innovatively , these actions are listed in a playscript in your inventory .
back in 1990 , at the height of midnight oils’ stateside popularity , the band protested exxon’s valdez oil spill by playing a lunchtime concert outside the corporation’s manhattan headquarters . the guerilla action gig stopped traffic on sixth avenue for blocks around radio city music hall . a 30 - foot banner atop the band’s flatbed truck read “midnight oil makes you dance , exxon oil makes us sick” . one likes to think that rex tillerson , then exxon’s vice president and now trump’s secretary of state , could hear the band’s clash - like cover of john lennon’s “instant karma” .
robert johnson , with 20 extant solos , was the son of john johnson , and evidently inherited his father’s melodic gifts . a major figure in the organisation of jacobean court masques , he wrote dance music ( published in sabol’s four hundred songs and dances from the stuart masque ) and songs , including some for shakespeare’s company , the king’s men ( published by stainer and bell ) as well as lute solos . an edition of his lute music edited by albert sunderman was formerly published in the oup lute music series ; now an edition is available from seicento notenversand . some of it is approachable for the early intermediate player . lynda sayce made a father - and - son album of the two johnsons’ music , the golden age restor’d , some years ago , and matthew wadsworth has recorded some solos on a album of songs and solos , away delights , on the avie label .
his easiest lute solos are probably ‘mistress winter’s jump’ , ‘orlando sleepeth’ , ‘fortune my foe’ and ‘mr dowland’s midnight’ , then the ‘preludium’ , ( p98 ) . after a year or two ( of regular practice , that is ! ) you could start to look at some of the easier song accompaniments , such as ‘burst forth my tears’ , ‘white as lilies was her face’ or ‘faction that ever dwells’ . you will be popular with sopranos at summer schools if , after two or three years of practising , you can master the accompaniments to some of the songs in the first book of songes .
won the kentucky derby and preakness , only to fall a heart - wrenching nose short in the belmont stakes . real quiet didn ' t prove to be commercially successful at stud , but as is often the case with broodmare sires , his quality may be evidenced years later in his daughters ' progeny . midnight lute is real quiet ' s best performing progeny and his first prominent son to stand at stud . three minor sons of real quiet are standing as regional sires . real quiet ' s sire quiet american is not noted as a sire of sires , but his daughters are recognized as superior producers .
but the world is upside down again , and if current pop acts can’t get it together to write protest songs , then maybe it ' s time to turn to midnight oil . the other day , i found myself rocking out to “read about it” , one of my favorite tracks from 10 to 1 :
in a repertoire largely preserved in manuscript sources , chances of survival are , happily , skewed in favour of quality , as the more popular a piece was , the more it would be copied , and the more likely it was to survive , so it makes some sense to consider lute composers in terms of their extant output .
a second release for midnight . swordfight . is now available through the links on its ifdb page . this version was created for display at the hand eye society ' s wordplay 2016 showcase . it fixes a few bugs and typos from the original release , smooths out some quixe formatting issues , and includes a little more dialogue for dmitri .
be all that as it may . . . besides the complete lute solos , mentioned above , the lachrimae ( 1604 ) collection for viols and ( very difficult ) lute has been published in facsimile by boethius , and in modern editions , most recently by fretwork editions , while his other consort music is available in a boxed set of partbooks from schott . his solo songs , first transcribed in the 1920s by edmund fellowes , are published by stainer & bell , who also publish a ( shockingly mistake - ridden ) new edition of his four - voice ayres in the musica britannica series ( the 1953 / 1976 edition has far fewer mistakes and bad page turns , but has no tab , for which the lute needs the solo song editions ) . facsimile editions of the songbooks have been published both by scolar press , latterly in association with brian jordan of cambridge , and now also by broude brothers , in their performers facsimile series . not forgetting diana poulton’s fascinating biography of the man , published by faber .
omitting song books and scottish sources ( to be discussed in future issues ) facsimile publishers and the lute books they publish are ( please correct me if i’m wrong ) currently as follows : boethius / severinus / jacks pipes and hammers : willoughby , trumbull , sampson , pickeringe , board , brogyntyn , hirsch , ml , marsh , mynshall .
pegram bred and owns govenor charlie , while midnight lucky was bred in kentucky by dr . charles kidder , j . k . griggs , and linda griggs . pegram owns the filly with karl watson and paul weitman , comprising the triumvirate that has struck grade 1 gold in recent years with lookin at lucky , coil , drill , and executiveprivilege .
five years ago , a friend and i were flipping through vinyl shelves at a record fair , as tragically hip music nerds do , and we confessed our guilty pleasures . “i own more midnight oil albums than i’d like to admit , ” i offered . i further confessed that , in fact , i owned all the oils’ releases , including australian imports .
both 3 - year - olds earned 50 points on the road to the derby and oaks standings . if both govenor charlie and midnight lucky make the trip to churchill downs , they will bring the longtime owner - trainer partnership of mike pegram and bob baffert back to the site of some of their most cherished memories , starting with real quiet’s kentucky derby in 1998 .
the lute society : krakow 40641 , folger dowland , welde , osborn fb7 ; wickhambrook ; in preparation : cambridge dd . 2 . 11 ( and ultimately we hope the rest of the cambridge mss : dd . 3 . 18 , dd . 4 . 22 , dd . 5 . 78 . 3 , dd . 9 . 33 , nn . 6 . 36 ) , herbert of cherbury ; in transcription : bl stowe 389 , royal appendix 58 ; giles lodge , westminster abbey ms 105 ; fragments photographed in the lute ( 1992 ) : bl add mss 60577 , 6402 , 41498 ( 1993 ) magdalen , edmund , och 1280 , occ 254 ( 1999 ) westminster abbey ms 105 ; journal article in preparation : william skypton’s ms .
overall , i really like midnight lute . he posted the top beyer of any sprinter ever at 124 and is a two time bc sprint winner . he ' s won over $ 6 million . he ' s shown the ability to get some really high quality speed horses that have been able to run away from their competition around both one and two turns , something he himself could never manage . now i really do think he was always physically capable of getting a classic distance , but his breathing limitations kept him from getting that far . i think he ' s got an extremely bright future , and with the stout backing of his connections of mike pegram and bob baffert , he ' s in a pretty good place to succeed long term .
many lute players like to go to the original sources for their music . but facsimile publishing of manuscripts is a specialist business , and publishers are rather few . the pioneers in the field were boethius press ; they ran into financial difficulties and were refounded as severinus press . remaining stocks ( and the possibilities of short - run reprints ) now lie with jacks , pipes and hammers
then came 1987’s diesel and dust , which broke midnight oil worldwide . recorded after a tour of the outback with indigenous musical groups , the oils’ sixth album included “beds are burning” , which people magazine accurately describes as “probably the first song about aborigine rights to go top 10 in the u . s . ” the band i secretly jammed out to with my cassette player now boomed from college dorm rooms everywhere .
fast - forward to 2017 , and these debates over musical tastes seem quaint . it’s punk rock time , like henry rollins says , and we’ve got reagan on steroids occupying the white house . public schools , women’s and minority ' s rights , and the environment are all under threat and i’ve taken my lazy white privileged ass out to the streets to protest . and i find myself listening to midnight oil again .
last weekend at sunland park , govenor charlie and midnight lucky all but stamped their tickets to the kentucky derby and kentucky oaks , respectively , with dominant performances in two - turn races . govenor charlie drew clear at the quarter pole and powered to a five - length win in the grade 3 sunland derby , covering 1 1 / 8 miles in a track - record 1 : 47 . 54 and earning a 95 beyer speed figure .
there are three main currently available editions of the english lute duets . stefan lundgren has edited most of the english duets , published in four albums by lundgren edition . lundgren has chopped the treble and ground duets about , to share out treble and ground sections between the two players . this certainly makes for more challenging and stimulating playing , even if it dilutes the didactic concentration of the originals . secondly , there is tablature for two lutes published by stainer & bell , in three volumes edited by nigel north and the late robert spencer . volume 1 contains easier anonymous treble and ground duets , volume 2 has slightly harder treble and ground duets by named composers , including three by robinson and four by john johnson , and volume 3 contains ten of the finest ‘equal’ duets . thirdly and most recently , gordon gregory has edited a selection of treble and ground duets for the lute society , o happie ground , aimed specifically at the student , with fingering indications throughout .
midnight lucky , who may train up to the kentucky oaks on may 3 , is the fourth winning foal out of the citidancer mare citiview . citiview is a full sister to hookedonthefeelin , whom pegram purchased for $ 110 , 000 at the 1997 keeneland september yearling sale . hookedonthefeelin was the winner of five stakes , including the grade 1 la brea . as a broodmare , hookedonthefeelin has produced pussycat doll , a real quiet three - time grade 1 winner for pegram and baffert during the mid - 2000s , as well as grade 1 winner jimmy creed and stakes winner funny feeling .
daniel bacheler comes next in the league table with 55 extant solos . it is surprising that to date there has been no complete edition of his music—the sources are considered problematic—chris morongiello is working on one , and has been supplying pieces by him for our lute news music supplements . much of the music requires more than seven courses , and is not terribly easy ; paul o’dette , who has made a recent recording on the harmonia mundi label , points out that it is hard to find a tempo that suits both the slow passages in his music and the fast divisions . so perhaps not a composer for the beginner to worry about unduly .
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive . ( li chi , 1962 )
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive .
( li chi , 1962 )
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive
( li chi , 1962 ) .
next , john johnson with 31 solos , ‘the queen’s luter’ first really great english lute composer . there have been two complete editions of his works , one published by orphee editions , the other by tree . there is some debate about attributions and the boundaries of his repertoire , and the contents of the two editions differ . he wrote many pavans , galliards , and ground - based pieces , but also some very tuneful variation sets on popular tunes . his duets are notable ; a hallmark of his treble - and - ground writing is that they run the whole gamut of the instrument—good student material ! christopher wilson and shirley rumsey have recorded a selection of his works on naxos .
next comes anthony holborne , with 52 extant solos , mostly pavans and galliards . he was also a noted composer for metal - strung instruments , the cittern and bandora . his solo music was edited first by masakata kanazawa some years ago , and published by harvard , and more recently has been edited by rainer aus dem spring , for the lute society ( this edition is out of print at the moment , but should be reprinted later this year . ) his works include a sprinkling of pieces , especially some of the galliards and almains , which the early intermediate player could begin to tackle . there have been attractive recent recordings by jacob heringman , on the asv label , and christopher wilson and shirley rumsey , on naxos .


lycodon cavernicolus , also known as gua wang burma wolf snake , is a species of colubrid snake found in peninsular malaysia .

it was first described in 2014 .

lycodon cavernicolus

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top : jaw of lycodon aulicus from jackson & fritts 2004 middle : lycodon zoosvictoriae from neang et al . 2014 bottom : lycodon cavernicolus from grismer et al . 2014
lycodon cavernicolus grismer , quah , anuar m . s . , muin , wood & nor 2014
lycodon cavernicolus grismer , quah , anuar m . s . , muin , wood & nor , 2014
lycodon cavernicolus grismer , quah , anuar , muin , wood & nor , 2014 , sp . nov . - plazi treatmentbank
regions according to the tdwg standard , where < em > lycodon cavernicolus < / em > occurs , not a & nbsp ; precise distribution map .
note that this is not a & nbsp ; precise distribution map , but region standardised by tdwg world geographical schema , where < em > lycodon cavernicolus < / em > occurs .
figure 4 . left : ventral pattern of the holotype of lycodon cavernicolus sp . nov . lsuhc 9985 . right : ventral pattern of the paratype lsuhc 10500 . photos by l . l . grismer
lycodon cavernicolus , grismer , l . lee , quah , evan s . h . , anuar , shahrul , muin , mohd abdul , wood , perry l . & nor , siti azizah mohd , 2014
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the specific epithet “cavernicolus” is an adjective derived from the latin caverna meaning “cave” and the latin cola meaning “dweller of” and refers to this species being a cave - dweller .
nota bene : a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than lycodon .
hans - martin braun added the english common name
mountain wolf snake
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hans - martin braun added the german common name
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hans - martin braun added the english common name
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siler et al . ( 2013 ) concluded that dinodon species are nested within the lycodon tree and noted that dinodon ( the more recently described genus ) should therefore be treated as a junior synonym of lycodon . based on their own molecular phylogenetic studies , guo et al . ( 2013 ) also suggested that dinodon should be synonymized with lycodon . lei et al . ( 2014 ) also found that dinodon species are nested within lycodon . based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses , lei et al . further concluded that oligodon multizonatum ( an endemic species known from sichuan and possibly gansu provinces in china ) actually falls within lycodon as well .
lanza , b . ( 1999 ) a new species of lycodon from the philippines , with a key to the genus . tropical zoology , 12 , 89–104 .
gaulke , m . 2002 . a new species of lycodon from panay island , philippines ( reptilia , serpentes , colubridae ) . spixiana , 25 , 85–92 .
lanza , b . 1999 . a new species of lycodon from the philippines , with a key to the genus ( reptilia serpentes colubridae ) . tropical zoology , 12 , 89–104 .
jackson , k . and t . h . fritts . 2004 . dentitional specialisations for durophagy in the common wolf snake , lycodon aulicus capucinus . amphibia - reptilia 25 : 247 - 254 < link >
vogel , g . & luo , j . ( 2011 ) a new species of the genus lycodon ( boie , 1826 ) from the southwestern china ( squamata : colubridae ) . zootaxa , 2807 , 29–40 .
lei , j . , x . sun , k . jiang , et al . 2014 . multilocus phylogeny of lycodon and the taxonomic revision of oligodon multizonatum . asian herpetological research 5 ( 1 ) : 26–37 .
vogel , g . & david , p . ( 2010 ) a new species of the genus lycodon ( boie , 1826 ) from yunnan province , china ( serpentes : colubridae ) . bonn zoological bulletin , 57 , 289–296 .
guo , p . , l . zhang , q . liu , et al . 2013 . lycodon and dinodon : one genus or two ? evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons . molecular phylogenetics and evolution 68 : 144–149 .
a new species of the genus lycodon fitzinger , 1826 is described from the cardamom mountains of southwest cambodia . lycodon zoosvictoriae distinctly differs from all other species of lycodon in southeast asia by a combination of its morphometric characters and unique coloration . the new species has 17 dorsal scales at midbody ; 2 + 2 temporals ; 8 supralabials ; 10 infralabials ; loreal separated from internasal and orbit ; 213 ventrals ; 85 subcaudals ; pale tan brown ground color ; irregular dark brown blotches on anterior part , 31 transverse blotches on posterior part of body and 26 blotches on tail . given its submontane type locality , the new species could prove to be endemic to the cardamom mountains of southwestern cambodia and probably southeast thailand .
figure 3 . dorsal ( upper ) and lateral ( lower ) head views of the holotype of lycodon cavernicolus sp . nov . lsuhc 9985 showing the location of head scales . f = frontal ; if = infralabial ; in = internasal ; l = loreal ; lat = lower anterior temporal ; lpt = lower posterior temporal ; m = mental ; mpt = middle posterior temporal ; n = nasal ; p = parietal ; pf = prefrontal ; po = postocular ; pp = postparietal ; pro = preocular ; r = rostral ; sl = supralabial ; so = suprocular ; uat = upper anterior temporal ; and upt = upper posterior temporal .
zhang , j . , jiang , k . , vogel , g . & rao , d . ( 2011 ) a new species of the genus lycodon ( squamata : colubridae ) from sichuan province , china . zootaxa , 2982 , 59–68 .
siler , c . d . , c . h . oliveros , a . santanen , and r . m . brown . 2013 . multilocus phylogeny reveals unexpected diversification patterns in asian wolf snakes ( genus lycodon ) . zoologica scripta , 42 : 262–277 .
siler , c . d . , oliveros , c . h . , santanen , a . & brown , r . m . ( 2013 ) multilocus phylogeny reveals unexpected diversification patterns in asian wolf snakes ( genus lycodon ) . zoologica scripta , 42 , 262–277 . urltoken
siler , c . d . , c . h . oliveros , a . santanen , and r . m . brown . 2013 . multilocus phylogeny reveals unexpected diversification patterns in asian wolf snakes ( genus lycodon ) . zoologica scripta 42 ( 3 ) : 262 - 277 .
vogel , g . , nguyen , t . q . , kingsada , p . & ziegler , t . ( 2012 ) a new species of the genus lycodon boie , 1826 from laos ( squamata : colubridae ) . north - western journal of zoology , 8 , 344–352 .
regarding inferences about the historical biogeography of lycodon , siler et al . ( 2013 ) note that with few exceptions , the results observed in their study are consistent with many of the biogeographic expectations for vertebrates in asia and the philippines ( see siler et al . 2013 for details and discussion ) .
neang , t . , t . hartmann , s . hun , n . j . souter , and n . m . furey . 2014 . a new species of wolf snake ( colubridae : lycodon fitzinger , 1826 ) from phnom samkos wildlife sanctuary , cardamom mountains , southwest cambodia . zootaxa 3814 : 68 - 80 < link >
grismer , l . lee ; evan s . h . quah , shahrul anuar m . s , , mohd abdul muin , perry l . wood , jr & siti azizah mohd nor 2014 . a diminutive new species of cave - dwelling wolf snake ( colubridae : lycodon boie , 1826 ) from peninsular malaysia . zootaxa 3815 ( 1 ) : 051–067
fitzinger li . 1826 . neue classification der reptilien nach ihren natürlichen verwandtschaften . nebst einer verwandtschafts - tafel und einem verzeichnisse der reptilien - sammlung des k . k . zoologischen museums zu wien . vienna : j . g . heubner , five unnumbered + 67 pp . + one plate . ( lycodon , new genus , p . 57 ) . ( in german and latin ) .
grismer , l . lee , quah , evan s . h . , anuar , shahrul , muin , mohd abdul , wood , perry l . & nor , siti azizah mohd , 2014 , a diminutive new species of cave - dwelling wolf snake ( colubridae : lycodon boie , 1826 ) from peninsular malaysia , zootaxa 3815 ( 1 ) , pp . 51 - 67 : 56 - 61
grismer , l . l . , e . s . h . quah , s . anuar , m . a . muin , p . l . wood jr , and s . a . m . nor . 2014 . a diminutive new species of cave - dwelling wolf snake ( colubridae : lycodon boie , 1826 ) from peninsular malaysia . zootaxa 3815 : 51 - 67 < link >
boulenger ga . 1893 . catalogue of the snakes in the british museum ( natural history ) , volume i . , containing the families . . . colubridæ aglyphæ , part . . london : trustees of the british museum ( natural history ) . ( taylor and francis , printers ) . xiii + 448 pp . + plates i - xxviii . ( genus lycodon , p . 348 , figure 23 ) .
vogel , g . , david , p . , pauwels , o . s . g . , sumontha m . , norval g . , hendrix , r . , vu , n . t . & ziegler , t . ( 2009 ) a revision of lycodon ruhstrati ( fischer 1886 ) auctorum ( squamata colubridae ) , with the description of a new species from thailand and a new subspecies from the asian mainland . tropical zoology , 22 , 131–182 .
type locality : gua wang burma , perlis state park , perlis , peninsular malaysia ( 6°41 . 594n 100°11 . 400e at 175 m elevation ) .
note : tdwg regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well . we are working on it .
holotype : lsuhc 9985 , adult female , collected on 12 march 2011 by evan s . h . quah and shahrul anuar m . s . paratype . juvenile male ( lsuhc 10500 ) has the same data as the holotype except for being collected on 23 may 2010 .
this database is maintained by peter uetz ( database content ) and jakob hallermann , zoological museum hamburg ( new species and updates ) .
, named for large teeth in both jaws . asian wolf snakes are placed in the genera
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reptile , any member of the class reptilia , the group of air - breathing vertebrates that have internal fertilization , amniotic development , and epidermal scales covering part or all of their body . the major groups of living reptiles—the turtles ( order testudines ) , tuatara ( order rhynchocephalia…
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new & recent described flora & fauna species from all over the world esp . asia , oriental , indomalayan & malesiana region
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wuodendron b . xue , y . h . tan & chaowasku wuodendron praecox ( hook . f . & thomson ) b . xue , y . h . tan & x . l . hou in xue , tan . . .
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chamaelirium viridiflorum l . wang , z . c . liu & w . b . liao in liu , feng , wang & liao , 2018 . doi : 10 . 11646 / phytotaxa . 357 . . . .
great - billed seed - finch sporophila maximiliani ( cabanis , 1851 ) in ubaid , silveira , medolago , et . al . , 2018 . doi : 10 . 11646 / . . .
endocerids with their filtering apparatus in mironenko , 2018 . doi : 10 . 1080 / 08912963 . 2018 . 1491565 reconstruction by andre . . .
aristolochia tongbiguanensis j . y . shen , q . b . gong & s . landrein in gong , landrein , xi , et al . , 2018 . doi : 10 . 6165 / tai . . . .
bagualosaurus agudoensis pretto , langer & schultz , 2018 doi : 10 . 1093 / zoolinnean / zly028 illustration : jorge blanco c . . .
the hypothetical phylogenetic relationships of ceratosaurs based on current topologies . the main source is from wang et al . ( 2016 . . .
nipponosaurus sachalinensis nagao , 1936 in takasaki , chiba , kobayashi , et al . , 2018 ニッポノサウルス | | doi : 10 . 1080 / 08912963 . 2017 . . . .
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anomaloglossus meansi : a new species of cryptic forest frog from the wokomung and ayanganna sky islands of southern guyana .
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plants go extinct , but sometimes species are rediscovered . this one after 151 years .
i ' m killing antediluvian salad but even in death there is rebirth . . .
necps carnivorous plant show : sept . 9 - 10 at tower hill botanical garden
this is a particularly beautiful species of centrolenid - the granular glass frog , cochranella granulosa .
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l . lee grismer department of biology , la sierra university , 4500 riverwalk parkway , riverside , california 92515 usa .
evan s . h . quah school of biological sciences , universiti sains malaysia , 11800 usm , pulau pinang , penang , malaysia .
shahrul anuar m . s school of biological sciences , universiti sains malaysia , 11800 usm , pulau pinang , penang , malaysia . center for marine and coastal studies , universiti sains malaysia , 11800 minden , pulau pinang , malaysia
mohd abdul muin school of biological sciences , universiti sains malaysia , 11800 usm , pulau pinang , penang , malaysia .
perry jr l . wood department of biology , brigham young university , 150 east bulldog boulevard , provo , utah 84602 usa .
siti azizah mohd nor school of biological sciences , universiti sains malaysia , 11800 usm , pulau pinang , penang , malaysia .
l . lee grismer , evan s . h . quah , shahrul anuar m . s , mohd abdul muin , perry jr l . wood , siti azizah mohd nor
alström , p . , davidson , p . , duckworth , j . w . , eames , j . c . , trai , t . l . , nguyen , c . , ollson , u . , robinson , c . & timmins , r . ( 2010 ) description of a new species of phylloscopus warbler from vietnam and laos . ibis , 152 , 145–168 .
burbrink , f . t . , lawson , r . & slowinski , j . b . ( 2000 ) mitochondrial dna phylogeography of the polytypic north american rat snake ( elaphe obsoleta ) : a critique of the subspecies concept . evolution , 54 , 2107–2118 . urltoken
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9985 ) collected on 12 march 2011 by evan s . h . quah and shahrul anuar m . s . from gua wang burma , perlis state park , perlis , peninsular malaysia ( 6 ° 41 . 594 n 100 ° 11 . 400 e at 175 m in elevation ) .
10500 ) has the same data as the holotype except for being collected on 23 may 2010 .
groups by having the combination of an elongate loreal scale that enters the orbit ; 245 ( male ) and 232 ( female ) ventral scales ; 113 ( male ) and 92 ( female ) paired subcaudal scales ; a single precloacal plate ; nine or 10 supralabials ; 10 or 11 infralabials ; a maximum total length of 508 mm for the single female ; relative tail length 0 . 25–0 . 27 ; venter immaculate as juveniles and with dark edging on the posterior margins of the ventral scales in adults ; and bands in juveniles that are white ( tables 2 , 3 ) .
–5 ) . head flattened anteriorly , distinct from the neck ; snout elongate ; nostril oval , large , in the middle of the nasal ; eye large , with a vertically elliptic pupil ; rostral triangular , hardly visible from above ; nasal vertically divided by a furrow along posterior margin of nostril ; two square internasals , in wide , medial contact , and in contact with two large , subrectangular prefrontals posteriorly ; single , azygous , subpentagonal frontal , longer than wide ; two large , elongate parietals , contacted laterally by upper anteriror and posterior temporals and a larger paraparietal ; 1 / 1 wide , triangular supraocular ; 1 / 1 small preocular , located above the posterior portion of loreal ; 2 / 2 postoculars of similar size ; 1 / 1 narrow , elongate loreal entering orbit , in contact with second , third , and fourth supralabials ventrally , the prefrontal and preocular dorsally , the nasal anteriorly ; 9 / 10 supralabials all higher than wide except last scale in the series ; first and second supralabials in contact with nasal ; fourth , fifth , and sixth supralabials entering orbit ; seventh supralabial largest ; upper row of two ( long anterior and short posterior ) temporals ; lower row of three ( two anterior and one posterior ) temporals ; a middle posterior temporal ventral to upper posterior temporal and dorsal to lower posterior temporal ; posterior temporals smaller than anterior temporals ; 11 / 11 infralabials ; first pair of infralabials separated medially by deep , medial groove ; first five infralabials in contact with first pair of chinshields ; anterior and posterior pair of chinshields elongate , generally same size and shape , and bearing a deep , medial groove that is confluent with groove separating first pair of infralabials .
body elongate , somewhat laterally compressed ; svl 406 mm ; tal 102 mm ; tl 508 mm . 232 ventrals ( plus two preventrals ) , 92 paired , subcaudals ; anal single ; dorsal scales in 17 – 17 – 15 rows , the eight medial rows weakly keeled ; vertebral row not enlarged ; no apical pits .
, 5 ) . body and tail nearly uniformly light - brown ; body bearing 36 faint , lighter colored bands ; tail bearing 29 similarly colored bands ; head coloration same as that of the faint bands ; venter ground color beige ; posterior edges of ventral scales edged in light - brown , generally beginning with ventral scale 40 ; subcaudals mottled with light - brown .
from throughout its range are listed in table 3 . the paratype is a hatchling and bears a bold , contrasting , dorsal color pattern similar to that of juvenile
( fig . 5 ) . its venter however , is nearly immaculate unlike the holotype whose ventrals are edged posteriorly with dark - brown ( fig . 4
) . it also has 45 irregularly shaped , whitish bands with darkened centers on the body and 41 similarly colored caudal bands . a wide , white band covers the occipital and posterior temporal regions . the anterior 11 bands on the body are more widely separated and distinct than the posterior body and caudal bands . presumably , the banding pattern fades considerably with maturity as in
” is an adjective derived from the latin caverna meaning “cave” and the latin cola meaning “dweller of” and refers to this species being a cave - dweller .
natural history . both the holotype and paratype were found deep within gua wang burma cave approximately 200 m from the cave entrance ( fig . 6
) . both specimens were found at approximately 1100 hrs . the holotype was observed scaling a vertical wall approximately 2 m above the ground while exploring nooks and crevices . she was gravid but expelled two eggs soon after capture . the paratype was found crawling over a slanting cave wall approximately 3 m above the ground in a more exposed area . other species of amphibians and reptiles observed in the cave or near the cave entrance were the bufonid
sp . nov . extends through march . the only potential food source we found deep within cave is
( juvelies ) which are also known to occur on the cave walls ( grismer et al . 2012 ) .
group by having a single loreal scale that enters the orbit as opposed to the loreal scale not entering the orbit . from the species of the
group it differs by having more ventral scales ( 232–245 vs . 182–227 collectively ) ; more subcaudal scales in the male ( 113 vs . 65–92 collectively ) ; a much smaller adult female total length ( 508 vs . 615–762 collectively ) ; more caudal bands ( 29–41 vs . 7–23 collectively ) ; and a belly pattern that lacks wide , dark bands or dark spots ( table 2 ) .
by the loreal and internasals being separat as opposed to contacting and having an uncorrected p - distance of 9 . 3 % ( table 4 ) .
figure 6 . microhabitat inside the gua wang burma cave at the type locality in perlis state park , perlis . photos by l . l . grismer .
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the phylogenetic results of siler et al . ( 2013 ) provide evidence of deeply divergent lineages within some taxa ( l . effraensis , l . subcinctus ) that may represent cryptic species . some of the lineage diversity revealed appears to correspond to taxonomic entities previously identified ( currently recognized as subspecies or synonyms ) and some does not . on the other hand , as noted above , genetic results suggest that species diversity within several clades may be overestimated , rather than underestimated , by current taxonomic treatments . between these two extremes lie species with moderate genetic structure observed among populations ( l . muelleri , l . aulicus complex ) .
( guo et al . 2013 and references therein ; siler et al . 2013 and references therein )
pyron , r . a . , h . k . dushantha kandambi , c . r . hendry , et al . 2013 . genus - level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in sri lanka . molecular phylogenetics and evolution 66 : 969–978 .
mish fc ( editor in chief ) . 2004 . merriam - webster ' s collegiate dictionary , eleventh edition . springfield , massachusetts : merriam - webster , incorporated . 40a + 1 , 623 pp . isbn 0 - 87779 - 809 - 5 . (
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neang thy , timo hartmann , seiha hun , nicholas j . souter , neil m . furey . 2014 . a new species of wolf snake ( colubridae :
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although cyrtodactylus vilaphongi was the 10 , 000th reptile species for a while , the order and position of entries in the reptile database is constantly changing . although new species get added to the end of the list , it ' s common for two or more existing species to get synonymized or merged , which moves the position of all subsequent species up . furthermore , sometimes species that were described long ago and subsequently synonymized are revalidated , leading to ' new ' species that aren ' t really new in the sense that they have existed before . finally , often existing species get split up , leading to additions that aren ' t as dramatic as legitimate new discoveries . this last complication is on the rise now that molecular systematics has enabled us to describe the cryptic diversity of some lineages , which are not all that morphologically distinct but may contain considerable genetic diversity .
at the time of my email to peter last month , c . vilaphongi was the 9988th species , and ( happily ) , a new snake , siphlophis ayauma , was # 10 , 000 . although this has probably changed again by now , i ' m going to operate under the assumption that , since we can ' t really say with certainty that any particular species was # 10 , 000 , if it was a snake , it was probably one of the 11 brand new snake species that have been described so far this year . you can read about many of these on the blog ' species new to science ' , but i ' m going to highlight them in a little more detail here .
eutrachelophis bassleri and its weird penis from myers & mcdowell 2014 a color photo of e . bassleri was published in echevarría & venegas 2015
harvey bassler , a petroleum geologist , explored many of the amazon ' s upper tributaries for his work during the 1920s and 30s , during which time he collected over 4 , 200 snakes on the side . bassler deposited his magnificent collection in the american museum of natural history in 1934 , and on march 6th this year
has extremely unusual heimpenes tipped with a dome - like structure so strange ( at least within the world of snake hemipenes ) that the authors wrote
we have seen nothing quite like [ it ] .
hemipenes were traditionally considered one of the most taxonomically - important structures in snakes
because they were considered to be evolutionarily neutral ( that is , unlikely to change in response to selection ) , but a growing awareness that evolution by both natural and especially sexual selection can influence the morphology of male genitalia led these authors to recognize that these two snakes were in fact close relatives . although we await molecular confirmation , the authors propose a mechanism by which differential expression of
on january 12th , 2008 , a group of american and ecuadorian herpetologists stopped for lunch at a grilled - chicken restaurant in paute , azuay province , ecuador . they noticed a peculiar sun - faded snake on display in a jar of alcohol that they couldn ' t quite put a name to . following negotiation with the restaurant owner , the specimen was acquired and determined to belong to the genus
, but could not be identified to any known species . a few months later , another specimen was found alive about 100 miles to the north , and two more were discovered in 2011 about the same distance to the south . a fifth individual is now recognized to have been hiding out unnoticed in the collection of the museo de zoología , pontificia universidad católica del ecuador . because of its red - banded head and its occurrence in the mountains near cold ( achachay ) streams , the new species was named
after the kichwa spirit aya uma , a good spirit devil who derives strength from nature , particularly from cold mountain pacchas ( cascades ) and is represented in kichwa folklore as having a colorful red - banded head . this is the seventh species in the genus , the third species known from ecuador , and the first new species of
.
amaru
means
snake
in kichwa , and is also the name of a snake deity who influences water and the economy . this diurnal snake lays clutches of 9 - 13 eggs underground in galleries and under decaying logs , and probably eats frogs and lizards . it is a close relative of the
) are a small and unusual group of vipers found in sub - saharan africa . they were once thought to be the most primitive vipers and were placed in their own subfamily , but they are now grouped with the
after the late jens rasmussen , a dutch expert on african snakes who died in 2005 . this species is found only in the watershed between the congo and zambezi basins , where it co - occurs with three other species of
from northwestern zambia with black markings and low ventral scale counts . in 2013 , someone sent him a picture of one eating a toad ( another unusual adaptation that night adders share with
) , which prompted him to look again at the unusual specimens and describe them as a new species . few molecular data are available for
brazil is graced with nearly 400 species of snakes , including 30 of the world ' s ~ 80 species of coralsnakes . the morphology of coralsnakes is highly variable , and there are many misidentified specimens in museum collections , so it is often difficult to recognize new species . a group of brazilian herpetologists working on the tri - colored coralsnakes from the endangered northeastern coastal forests discovered a new species , which they described in the june 5th issue of
( if any of these dates are your birthday , then you share a birthday with that of a new species of snake ! ) .
) are named for their fearsome - looking fang - like anterior maxillary teeth . unlike
, wolfsnake teeth are not grooved or hollow and they have no venom . instead , their strongly arched upper jaw helps them feed on skinks , whose hard , cylindrical bodies fit snugly into their diastema , or the gap between their anterior and posterior teeth . the wolf - like anterior teeth keep the skink from being squeezed out of the mouth , while the posterior teeth slice through the skink ' s cycloid scales . at least 16 of the nearly 60 species of
from a limestone cave in peninsular malaysia . the latter is a cave - adapted species , both specimens of which were found climbing several feet above the cave floor , in total darkness . it ' s likely that they eat a cave - adapted gecko . many of the caves in this region are in immediate danger of being quarried for cement before their endemic fauna and flora can be fully documented . both of these species were also described in
, with the stated goal of aiding conservation efforts by circumventing the lengthy delays normally associated with publication of new science . since its inception in 2001 ,
cloudogram
of crotalus triseriatus species group showing the new nine - species arrangement from bryson et al . 2014
species group , which contains small montane rattlesnakes found in mexico and the southwestern usa . although five species were historically recognized within the group , an analysis of seven nuclear genes revealed that there are at least nine species , including two that were previously recognized as subspecies and two more that have not heretofore been formally recognized . the paper described the two new species :
. the authors of this paper suggest that these rattlesnakes speciated rapidly from a single common ancestor during the uplifting of the trans - mexican volcanic belt near the end of the neogene period 2 . 6 million years ago , which makes sense because they are not very mobile and populations of their common ancestor likely would have become isolated from one another on various
sky islands
of suitable habitat during the genesis of this new mountain range . many species are endemic to the high - altitude pine - oak forests and grasslands of this region , which has become famous
( 10 or 12 ) , the central pair of which are strongly keeled , giving the snake a distinctly flat - backed appearance . this species is found in riparian forests along rocky streams in coastal brazil , not too far south of the new coralsnake ( above ) .
, from near the border of china , india , and burma . which is relatively closely related to the
) . more new species from both of these groups will likely follow , given the taxonomic untidiness of their genera .
thanks to peter uetz at the reptile database for sharing with me some inside information , and to the authors of these papers for their photos .
newspaper clipping from 10 january 1960 showing broadley with his amputated finger . you can see more at the finger ' s facebook page or listen to broadley describe the experience here .
angarita - sierra , t . 2014 . hemipenial morphology in the semifossorial snakes of the genus ninia and a new species from trinidad , west indies ( serpentes : dipsadidae ) . south american journal of herpetology 9 : 114 - 130 < link >
broadley , d . g . 2014 . a new species of causus lichtenstein from the congo / zambezi watershed in north - western zambia ( reptilia : squamata : viperidae ) . arnoldia zimbabwe 10 : 341 - 350 < link >
bryson , r . j . , c . w . linkem , m . e . dorcas , a . lathrop , j . m . jones , j . alvarado - diaz , c . i . grunwald , and r . w . murphy . 2014 . multilocus species delimitation in the crotalus triseriatus species group ( serpentes : viperidae : crotalinae ) , with the description of two new species . zootaxa 3826 : 475 - 496 < link >
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dowling , h . g . 1967 . hemipenes and other characters in colubrid classification . herpetologica 23 : 138–142 < link >
guo , p . , q . liu , l . zhang , j . x . li , y . huang , and r . a . pyron . 2014 . a taxonomic revision of the asian keelback snakes , genus amphiesma ( serpentes : colubridae : natricinae ) , with description of a new species . zootaxa 3873 : 425 - 440 < link >
fernandes , d . and b . hamdan . 2014 . a new species of chironius fitzinger , 1826 from the state of bahia , northeastern brazil ( serpentes : colubridae ) . zootaxa 3881 : 563 - 575 < link >
köhler , g . and m . kieckbusch . 2014 . two new species of atractus from colombia ( reptilia , squamata , dipsadidae ) . zootaxa 3872 : 291 - 300 < link >
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myers , c . w . and s . b . mcdowell . 2014 . new taxa and cryptic species of neotropical snakes ( xenodontinae ) , with commentary on hemipenes as generic and specific characters . bulletin of the american museum of natural history 385 : 1 - 112 < link >
pires , m . g . , n . j . da silva jr . , d . t . feitosa , a . l . d . c . prudente , g . a . p . filho , and h . zaher . 2014 . a new species of triadal coral snake of the genus micrurus wagler , 1824 ( serpentes : elapidae ) from northeastern brazil . zootaxa 3811 : 569 - 585 < link >
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another fascinating post . changing taxonomy plays havoc with people who try to keep a tally of the reptiles that they have encountered . i try to maintain a bird list and keep track of it all on , ebird . they drive me nuts by constantly informing me that i need to update my records to reflect changes in bird taxonomy . i do not even try to remember all the new names of old bird species . i have no idea what my real life list is .
thanks john ! i agree , it is quite complicated . i use ebird as well , and i have to admit that i ' ve found the way they handle taxonomy to be quite painless . i ' ve heard that this is not the case on other bird life - listing websites , however .
i am a phd student at utah state university , where i study the physiology and ecology of lizards and snakes . my research is quite narrow compared to the fascinating field of snake ecology , which i write about here to indulge my broader interests . my work brings me into frequent contact with the need for snake conservation , which requires holistic conservation of ecosystem structure and function , on which human society depends . i believe that we can only accomplish this goal through education , and that is partly why i decided to publish this blog . the title is a quote by david quammen , one of the best science writers around , and the mudsnake in the logo is from duméril , bibron , & duméril ' s nine - volume early 19th century opus , erpétologie générale .
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if you have found a snake shed that you wish to identify in the usa or canada , click here for a guide . click here to view the spanish . . .
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click here to read this post in spanish ! haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español ! solenoglyphous fangs of a gaboon viper snake . . .
click here to read this post in spanish haga clic aquí para leer este blog en español global distribution of all snake species combin . . .
continent : asia distribution : taiwan , china ( jiangxi , fujian , guangdong , northward to anhui and west to sichuan [ elevation 800 - 1850 m ] and se gansu ) , n vietnam ( elevation 500 - 1500 m ) ruhstrati : taiwan ( endemic ) abditus : type locality : u bo region , phong nha – ke bang np , quang binh province , vietnam . type locality : süd - formosa [ = south taiwan ] , china .