You are here » home › advanced search › Suta punctata

Suta punctata (BOULENGER, 1896)

IUCN Red List - Suta punctata - Least Concern, LC
iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Suta punctata?

Add your own observation of
Suta punctata »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Spotted Snake, Little Spotted Snake 
SynonymDenisonia punctata BOULENGER 1896: 341
Suta punctata MCDOWELL 1970
Denisonia punctata — SMITH 1980
Denisonia punctata — COGGER 1983: 223
Rhinoplocephalus punctatus STORR 1984
Suta punctata — WELCH 1994: 109
Suta punctata — COGGER 2000: 691
Suta punctata — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Suta punctata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 691
Suta punctata — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017
Suta punctata — MARYAN et al. 2020 
DistributionAustralia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

Type locality: Port Walcott, W. A.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.20.76 (formerly 89.5.13.8), collected Capt J.R. Beckett. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from other Denisonia by having 15, rather than 17 rows of scales at midbody. (Smith 1980)


Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 2228 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous! 
EtymologyPresumably named after the Latin punctatus (spotted), referring to the color pattern. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here
  • MARYAN, BRAD; IAN G. BRENNAN, MARK N. HUTCHINSON, LUKAS S. GEIDANS 2020. What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 4778 (1): 1–47 - get paper here
  • Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A.R. & Weinstein, S.A. 2017. Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 pp. - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Parkin, T., Jolly, C. J., de Laive, A., & von Takach, B. 2020. Snakes on an urban plain: Temporal patterns of snake activity and human–snake conflict in Darwin, Australia. Austral Ecology - get paper here
  • Smith, L. A. 1980. Taxonomy of Denisonia punctata and Denisonia fasciata (Serpentes: Elapidae). Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 8: 327-333 - get paper here
  • Somaweera, R. 2009. Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney
  • 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.
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:


Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator