The first scientific description by John Edward Gray in 1832 was based on a zoological specimen from the Maluku Islands in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands.
The initial scientific description of a species by John Edward Gray in 1832 was based on a zoological specimen from the Maluku Islands, which is part of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie collection in Leiden, Netherlands.