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Elapognathus coronatus (SCHLEGEL, 1837)

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Crowned Snake 
SynonymElaps coronatus SCHLEGEL 1837: 454
Trimeresurus olivaceus GRAY 1841: 443
Elaps melanocephalus GRAY & NEILL 1845: 416
Alecto coronata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1255
Denisonia coronata — BOULENGER 1896: 335
Denisonia coronata — KINGHORN 1924
Denisonia coronata — FLEAY 1952
Drysdalia coronata — WORRELL 1961: 25
Drysdalia coronata — COVENTRY & RAWLINSON 1980
Notechis coronatus — STORR 1982
Drysdalia coronata — COGGER 1983: 223
Drysdalia coronatus — HUTCHINSON 1990
Drysdalia coronata — WELCH 1994: 57
Drysdalia coronata — SHINE 1994
Drysdalia coronata — COGGER 2000: 645
Elapognathus coronata — KEOGH et al. 2000
Elapognathus coronatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 478
Elapognathus coronatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 264
Elapognathus coronatus — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 141 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia)

Type locality: King George's Sound, W. A. (original description cites Australia) designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesLectotype: MNHN-RA 0321, designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).
Holotype: lost (presumed), from Australia [Trimeresurus olivaceus]
Holotype: BMNH, from King George's Sound, W. A. [Elaps melanocephalus] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3331 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after COGGER 1983.

Habitat: terrestrial

Venomous! 
Etymologypresumably from the Latin coronatus (crowned), in reference to the dark head. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) 
References
  • Bush, B. & Maryan, B. 2006. Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of Southern Western Australia. Snakes Harmful & Harmless, Stoneville, Perth, Western Australia, 40 pp. - 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
  • Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here
  • Fleay, D. 1952. The crowned or coronated snake. Victorian Naturalist 68: 146-150 - get paper here
  • Gray, J. E. & Neill, J. 1845. Catalogue of reptiles and fish, found at King George's Sound. Appendix in: Eyre, E. J. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1. London: T. & W. Boone 1: 412-418
  • Gray, J.E. 1841. A catalogue of the species of reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E, pp. 422-449. In: G. Grey, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwestern and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's Government. T. and W. Boone, London. Vol. 2: 422-449 + plates - get paper here
  • Guibé, J. & Roux-Estève, R. 1972. Les types de Schlegel (Ophidiens) présents dans les collections du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Zoologische Mededelingen 47: 129-134 - get paper here
  • Hallermann, J. 2020. An annotated list of reptiles and amphibians from the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 61 - 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
  • Keogh,J.S., Scott,I.A. & Scanlon,J.D. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of viviparous Australian elapid snakes: affinities of Echiopsis atriceps (Storr, 1980) and Drysdalia coronata (Schlegel 1837) with description of a new genus. Journal of Zoology 252: 317-326 - 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
  • Schlegel, H. 1837. Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Descriptive. La Haye (J. Kips, J. HZ. et W. P. van Stockum), 606 S. + xvi - 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
  • Shine, Richard 1994. Sexual size dimorphism in snakes revisited. Copeia 1994 (2): 326-346 - get paper here
  • 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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