Antaioserpens albiceps (BOULENGER, 1898)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: North-eastern Plain-nosed Burrowing Snake, Robust Burrowing Snake
Synonym	Pseudelaps albiceps BOULENGER 1898: 414 Denisonia rostralis DE VIS 1911 Rhynchelaps fuscicollis LÖNNBERG & ANDERSSON 1915 Antaioserpens albiceps — COUPER et al. 2016: 402 Antaioserpens albiceps — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 88
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Port Douglas, Qld
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.50 (formerly 98.9.6.3), collected by R. Broom.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A. albiceps is distinguished from all other Australia elapids by the following suite of characters: eyes small; snout weakly shovel shaped, rostral scale lacking an acute transverse cutting edge; nasal and preocular scale separated by prefrontal / supralabial contact; two primary temporal scales; 15 midbody rows; subcaudals divided; a black bar between the eyes and another broad black bar across the nape; dorsal body scales with dark, even edges forming a reticulated pattern [COUPER et al. 2016: 402].
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	Named after the Latin nouns albus, "white," and Latin -ceps = head.
References	Boulenger, G. A. 1898. Description of two new snakes from Queensland. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 2: 414 - get paper here COUPER, PATRICK J.; STEPHEN R. PECK, JON-PAUL EMERY, J. SCOTT KEOGH 2016. Two snakes from eastern Australia (Serpentes: Elapidae); a revised concept of Antaioserpens warro (De Vis) and a redescription of A. albiceps (Boulenger). Zootaxa 4097 (3): 396–408 - get paper here De Vis, C. W. 1911. Description of snakes apparently new. Ann. Qd Mus. 10: 22-25 Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here Lönnberg, E. & Andersson, G. L. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. VII. Reptiles collected in northern Queensland. Kungl. Svenska Vetensk. -Akad. Hand]. 52 (7): 1-9 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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