Drysdalia coronoides (GÜNTHER, 1858)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: White-lipped Snake G: Weißlippen-Otter
Synonym	Hoplocephalus 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 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
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria) Type locality: Tas. (original description cites Tasmania and Australia), designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.39 Holotype: MNHP (status unknown), from Australia [Alecto labialis] Holotype: QM J196, from Tasmania [Denisonia nigra].
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): see Coventry & Rawlinson 1980: 66
Comment	Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983. Venomous! Type species: Hoplocephalus coronoides GÜNTHER 1858: 215 is the type species of the genus Drysdalia WORRELL 1961. Diet: skinks
References	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 Hutchinson M N 1990. The generic classification of the Australian terrestrial elapid snakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29 (3): 397-405 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/snakes/elapids/elapids.htm http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-54UAAP?open http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Drysdalia/coronoides Google images

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