| Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Dwarf Crowned Snake, Krefft's Dwarf Snake |
| Synonym | Cacophis krefftii GÜNTHER 1863: 361
Cacophis fordei KREFFT 1869
Pseudelaps krefftii BOULENGER 1896
Aspidomorphus krefftii
Cacophis krefftii — WORRELL 1961: 24
Cacophis krefftii — COGGER 1983: 219
Cacophis krefftii — WELCH 1994: 39
Cacophis krefftii — COGGER 2000: 637
Cacophis krefftii — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Cacophis krefftii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 131 |
| Distribution | Australia (New South Wales, Queensland)
Type locality: North of the Clarence River, N. S. W. but original description cites "probably from Port Macquarie, N. S. W.
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| Reproduction | oviparous or viviparous (Tinkle & Gibbons 1977) |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.60 (formerly 63.6.16.60), labelled "North of the Clarence River, N. S. W. but original description cites "probably from Port Macquarie, N. S. W.”
Holotype: AM 6672, from Pine Mountain, near Ipswich, Qld. [Cacophis fordei] |
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| Comment | Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983.
Type species: Cacophis krefftii GÜNTHER 1863 is the type species of the genus Cacophis GÜNTHER 1863.
Venomous! |
| Etymology | Named after Gerhard Krefft (1830-1881), German-born naturalist who worked mostly in Australia.
The genus Cacophis was possibly named after the Greek kakos (a word with a variety of meanings, including bad, evil, mean, ugly or unhappy), plus ophis (snake). The allusion is unclear. Derivation not stated by Günther (1863). |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - 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.
- Fitzgerald M 1994. Notes on the ecology of the dwarf crowned snake (Cacophis kreffti) in northeastern NSW. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 24 (2): 11-13
- Günther. A. 1863. Third account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 12: 348 - 365 - get paper here
- Hutchinson M N 1990. The generic classification of the Australian terrestrial elapid snakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29 (3): 397-405 - get paper here
- Krefft, G. 1869. The Snakes of Australia; an Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species. Sydney, Govt. Printer xxv + 100 pp. - get paper here
- Scanlon, John D. 2003. The Australian Elapid genus Cacophis: Morphology and phylogeny of rainforest crowned snakes. The Herpetological Journal 13 (1):1-20 - get paper here
- Shine, R. 1980. Comparative ecology of three Australian snake species of the genus Cacophis (Serpentes : Elapidae). Copeia 1980 (4): 831-838 - get paper here
- Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp.
- Tinkle, Donald W.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield 1977. The distribution and evolution of viviparity in reptiles. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (154): 1-55 - 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, R. 1980. Notes on Krefft's dwarf snake (Cacophis krefftii). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 11: 18-19
- Wells, R. 1982. Literature: Notes on Kreffts Dwarf snake (Cacophis krefftii). Litteratura Serpentium 2 (1): 52 - get paper here
- Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
- Worrell, E. 1961. Herpetological Name Changes. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 18—27. - get paper here
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