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Drysdalia coronoides (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: White-lipped Snake
G: Weißlippen-Otter 
SynonymHoplocephalus coronoides GÜNTHER 1858: 215
Alecto labialis JAN & SORDELLI 1873
Hoplocephalus coronoides — MCCOY 1878: 8
Denisonia coronoides — BOULENGER 1896 (part.)
Denisonia nigra DE VIS 1905: 50
Denisonia coronoides — KINGHORN 1924
Drysdalia coronoides — WORRELL 1961: 25
Drysdalia coronoides — COVENTRY & RAWLINSON 1980: 69
Notechis coronoides STORR 1982
Drysdalia coronoides — COGGER 1983: 223
Drysdalia coronoides — WELCH 1994: 57
Drysdalia coronoides — COGGER 2000: 646
Drysdalia coronoides — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Drysdalia coronoides — WALLACH et al. 2014: 249 
DistributionAustralia (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria)

Type locality: Tas. (original description cites Tasmania and Australia), designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.39
Holotype: MNHP (status unknown), from Australia [Alecto labialis]
Holotype: QM J196, from Tasmania [Denisonia nigra]. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): see Coventry & Rawlinson 1980: 66


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CommentSynonymy partly after COGGER 1983.

Venomous!

Type species: Hoplocephalus coronoides GÜNTHER 1858: 215 is the type species of the genus Drysdalia WORRELL 1961.

Key: Coventry & Rawlinson 1980 provide a key to the 4 species of Drysdalia, including D. coronata, now included in

Diet: skinks 
EtymologyNamed after Greek korone (wreath, crown, diadem) + oides (resembling), alluding to the head stripes, which resemble a head-wreath or regal diadem.

The genus was named after George Russell Drysdale, Australian artist who accompanied Worrell to Tasmanian islands where he collected the type material. George Russell Drysdale (1912–1981) is considered one of the greatest Australian artists. 
References
  • Brischoux F, Pizzatto L, Shine R. 2010. Insights into the adaptive significance of vertical pupil shape in snakes. J Evol Biol. 23(9): 1878-85. - 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.
  • Coventry, A. J. & Rawlinson, P. A. 1980. Taxonomic revision of the elapid snake genus Drysdalia Worrell, 1961. Mem. Natl. Mus. Vict. 41: 65-78 - get paper here
  • de Vis, Charles Walter de 1905. A new genus of lizard. On Typhlops torresianus. Ann. Queensland Museum (Brisbane) 6: 48 - get paper here
  • de Vis, Charles Walter de 1905. A new genus of lizard. Ann. Queensland Museum (Brisbane) 6: 46-52
  • Dubey, Sylvain; J. Scott Keogh, Richard Shine 2010. Plio-pleistocene diversification and connectivity between mainland and Tasmanian populations of Australian snakes (Drysdalia, Elapidae, Serpentes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (3): 1119-1125 - get paper here
  • Gomard, Guillaume 2015. Tigerottern: eine Einladung zum Kennenlernen der Reptilien Tasmaniens. Terraria-Elaphe 2015 (4): 44-51 - get paper here
  • Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281 - 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
  • Hutchinson, M.N. 1979. The reptiles of Kinglake National Park. Victorian Naturalist 96: 124-134 - get paper here
  • Jan, G. & Sordelli, F. 1873. Iconographie Générale des Ophidiens. Atlas 1860-1881. Milan: Jan & Sordelli, 50 livr. - get paper here
  • Kinghorn, J. Roy 1924. Reptiles and batrachians from south and south-west Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 14 (3): 163-183 - get paper here
  • Kinghorn, J. Roy 1926. Note on Pseudelaps minutus Fry. Rec. Austral. Mus. 15 (1): 65 - get paper here
  • McCoy, F. 1878. Hoplocephalus coronoides (Günth.) The white-lipped snake [... etc.] Prod. Zool. Vict. 2: 7-9 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Shine, R. 1981. Venomous snakes in cold climates: ecology of the Australian genus Drysdalia (Serpentes : Elapidae). Copeia 1981 (1): 14-25 - get paper here
  • Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp.
  • 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.
  • Worrell, E. 1961. Herpetological Name Changes. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 18—27. - get paper here
 
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