Demansia vestigiata (DE VIS, 1884)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black whip snake
Synonym	Hoplocephalus vestigiatus DE VIS 1884 Diemenia atra MACLEAY 1884: 549 Demansia superba BOULENGER 1896 Diemenia maculiceps BOETTGER 1898 (fide COGGER 1983) Demansia atra COGGER 1975 Demansia atra — STORR 1978: 299 Demansia vestigiata HUTCHINSON 1990 Demansia atra — WELCH 1994: 53 Demansia vestigiata — WELCH 1994: 53 Demansia atra — SHINE 1994 Demansia atra — COGGER 2000: 639 Demansia vestigiata — SHEA & SCANLON 2007 Demansia vestigiata — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Demansia vestigiata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 215 Demansia vestigiata — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017
Distribution	S Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory, N Queensland, Western Australia) Type locality: Ingham, Queensland, Australia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J206 (vestigiata) Syntypes: AM B5941, AM R31920 [atra] Holotype, SMF 20498 [maculiceps]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Smith and Wallach 1997 proposed to conserve the specific name of Demansia atra (Macleay, 1884, (published 29 November)). The name is threatened by the synonym Hoplocephalus vestigiatus De Vis, 1884 (published 13 September) the latter of which was published two months earlier but remained unused until 1990. Distribution: D. papuensis is now believed to be confined to Australia, despite its name, and D.atra in NG is now known as D. vestigata (Mark O’Shea and John Pilgrim, pers. comm.; SHEA & SCANLON 2007). Venomous!
Etymology	Named after its color, Latin “ater, atra, atrum” = dark or black.
References	Boettger, O. 1898. Katalog der Reptilien-Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt/M. 2.Teil (Schlangen). [type catalogue] Frankfurt/M (Gebr. Knauer), i-ix + 1-160. - get paper here Charlton, T. 2019. Ingestion of a Discarded Foam Ear Plug by a Wild Lesser Black Whip Snake (Demansia vestigiata; De Vis, 1884) in Central Province, Papua New Guinea. Captive & Field Herpetology 3 (1): 60-61 - 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. De Vis, C. W. 1884. Descriptions of a new snake with a synopsis of the genus Hoplocephalus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 138-140 - get paper here De Vis, CW. 1884. On a new Species of Hoplocephalus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 100 - get paper here Fearn, S.; D. F. Trembath 2009. Body size, food habits, reproduction and growth in a population of black whip snakes (Demansia vestigiata) (Serpentes: Elapidae) in tropical Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 57(1): 49–54 - get paper here ICZN 1999. OPINION 1940. Hoplocephalus vestigiatus De Vis, 1884 (Reptilia, Serpentes): specific name placed on the Official List. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 56 (3) - get paper here Kelehear, C. 2012. Demansia vestigiata (lesser black whipsnake) diet. Herpetological Review 43: 659 - get paper here Macleay, W. 1884. Census of Australian snakes with descriptions of two new species. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 9: 548-568 - 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. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Shea, G.M. & Scanlon 2007. Revision of the small tropical whipsnakes previously referred to Demansia olivacea (Gray, 1842) and Demansia torquata (Guenther, 1862) (Squamata: Elapidae). Rec. Austral. Mus. 59 (2-3): 117-142 - get paper here Shine, Richard 1994. Sexual size dimorphism in snakes revisited. Copeia 1994 (2): 326-346 - get paper here Shine, Richard; Claire Goiran, Catherine Shilton, Shai Meiri, Gregory P Brown 2019. The life aquatic: an association between habitat type and skin thickness in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blz136 - get paper here Smith H M. Wallach V. 1997. Diemenia atra Macleay, 1884 (currently Demansia atra; Reptilia, Serpentes): Proposed conservation of the specific name. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 54, (1): 31-34. - 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	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:823DA8CA-9F68-444A-8460… http://www.jcu.edu.au/dept/Zoology/herp/trept/elap.html http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2970/faunagen.htm http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/snakes/snakedetail.asp?TaxName… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Demansia/vestigiata https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/555806663310603/ http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Eremiascincus… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/257485033142769/ http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Eroticoscincus… http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/chklst15.htm Google images

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