Denisonia maculata (STEINDACHNER, 1867)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Ornamental Snake |
Synonym | Hoplocephalus maculatus STEINDACHNER 1867: 81 Denisonia ornata KREFFT 1869: 82 Hoplocephalus Muelleri FISCHER 1885: 109 Denisonia maculata — COGGER 1983: 223 Denisonia maculata — WELCH 1994: 55 Denisonia maculata — COGGER 2000: 644 Denisonia maculata — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Denisonia maculata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 226 |
Distribution | Australia (Queensland) Type locality: N. S. W., subsequent restriction to Rockhampton, Qld. proposed by Mackay (1956). |
Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Syntypes: NMW = NHMW, unnumbered (2 specimens) listed by Cogger et al. (1983), but Tiedemann & Häupl (1980) and Tiedemann et al. (1994) did not list any such specimens in the NMW collection. Consequently, a lectotype designation by Wells & Wellington (1985) of the larger of the two specimens is invalid. Holotype: AM 6697, from near Rockhampton, Qld. [Denisonia ornata] Holotype: SMNS 2377 (=10821), from Qld. [Hoplocephalus muelleri] |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): see Hutchinson 1990: 400 |
Comment | Synonymy after COGGER 1983. Venomous! Type species: Hoplocephalus maculatus STEINDACHNER 1867: 81 is the type species of the genus Denisonia KREFFT 1869. |
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