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Pseudonaja inframacula (WAITE, 1925)

IUCN Red List - Pseudonaja inframacula - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Peninsula Brown Snake 
SynonymDemansia textilis inframacula WAITE 1925: 26
Pseudonaja textilis inframacula WORRELL 1963
Pseudonaja affinis inframacula STORR 1986
Pseudonaja textilis — COGGER 1983: 234
Pseudonaja inframacula — COGGER 1992
Pseudonaja textilis inframacula — WELCH 1994: 105
Pseudonaja inframacula — COGGER 2000: 670
Euprepiosoma inframacula — WELLS 2002
Pseudonaja inframacula — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Pseudonaja inframacula — WALLACH et al. 2014: 604
Pseudonaja inframacula — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017
Pseudonaja inframacula — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 194 
DistributionAustralia (Southern Eyre Peninsula and southern Yorke Peninsula; geographically isolated populations occur near Nullarbor Station, west of Eyre Peninsula and on the North Neptunes and Wardang Island, Spencer Gulf)

Type locality: N end of Coffin's Bay Peninsula, on W coast of Eyre Peninsula, S. A.; not included in Houston (1976).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: SAMA (2 specimens, not found and thus possibly lost, fide Cogger 1983) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: SKINNER 2009. 
CommentVenomous!

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Latin infra (below) plus macula (spot) in reference to the dark ventral spotting of this species. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here
  • Houston, T. F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. III. Reptiles. [type catalogue] Rec. South Austral. Mus. 17: 181-187 - get paper here
  • Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A.R. & Weinstein, S.A. 2017. Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 pp. - get paper here
  • Skinner, Adam 2009. A multivariate morphometric analysis and systematic review of Pseudonaja (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (1): 171-197 - get paper here
  • Skinner, Adam; Stephen C. Donnellan; Mark N. Hutchinson and Rhonda G. Hutchinson 2005. A phylogenetic analysis of Pseudonaja (Hydrophiinae, Elapidae, Serpentes) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 37 (2): 558-571 - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • Waite, E. R. 1925. Field notes on some Australian reptiles and batrachians. Rec. South Austral. Mus. 3: 17-32 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Wells, Richard W. 2002. Taxonomy of the Genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biodiversity Record (7): 1-41
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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