Austrelaps ramsayi (KREFFT, 1864)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | Highlands Copperhead |
Synonym | Hoplocephalus ramsayi KREFFT 1864: 180 Hoplocephalus ramsayi KREFFT 1865: 67 Denisonia superba BOULENGER 1896 (part.) ? Hoplocephalus bransbyi MACLEAY 1878 Hoplocephalus brankysi - GOLDMAN, HILL & STANBURY 1969 (in errore) Austrelaps superbus — COGGER 1983: 218 Austrelaps ramsayi — RAWLINSON 1991 Austrelaps ramsayi — WELCH 1994: 27 Austrelaps ramsayi — COGGER 2000: 771 Austrelaps ramsayi — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Austrelaps ramsayi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 86 |
Distribution | Australia (New South Wales, Victoria) Type locality: “neighbourhood of Braidwood", N. S. W. Map legend: ![]() 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. |
Reproduction | viviparous. |
Types | Holotype: not found, from "neighbourhood of Braidwood", N. S. W. Holotype: AM R31922, from Sutton Forest, N. S. W. [Hoplocephalus bransbyi] Neotype: designated by Rawlinson (1991). |
Comment | Formerly included as part of Austrelaps superbus. Venomous! |
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