Demansia cyanochasma NANKIVELL, MARYAN, BUSH & HUTCHINSON, 2023
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Synonym | Demansia cyanochasma NANKIVELL, MARYAN, BUSH & HUTCHINSON 2023 Demansia cyanochasma — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 118 |
Distribution | Australia (South Australia) Type locality: Moonaree Station, Gawler Ranges (-31.7017, 135.5319), South Australia, Australia |
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Types | Holotype. SAMA R48865 (Fig. 8), male, collected by H. Ehmann, 2 November 1996. Fixed in 10% formalin, stored in 70% ethanol; liver tissue stored at SAMA as ABTC58583. Paratypes: MAGNT, SAMA, WAM, |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A medium-sized Demansia with more than 172 ventrals and with a cream-edged black transrostral line typically only extending to the nostrils, lacking any traces of hood or collar markings, and combining a variable body colour of shades of bluish grey or grey with brown head and posterior body and tail, indistinct dark margins on the body scales, a relatively short dark tail on comma-shaped circumorbital marking typically extending to the fifth supralabial and occasionally contacting or continuing on to the lower primary temporal, ventral surface white to bluish white. (Nankivell et al. 2023) |
Comment | Distribution: see map in Nankivell et al. 2023: Figure 5. |
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