Furina ornata (GRAY, 1842)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Orange-naped Snake E: Orange-naped whipsnake [christeanus] G: Nördlicher Rotnackenotter
Synonym	Elaps ornatus GRAY 1842: 55 Brachysoma simile MACLEAY 1878: 221 Pseudelaps christieanus FRY 1915: 91 Pseudelaps christeanus — WORRELL 1945: 32 Lunelaps christianus — WORRELL 1961 Furina ornata — COGGER 1983: 225 Aspidomorphus christieanus — MINTON et al. 1970 Furina christieanus — UNDERWOOD 1979 Furina ornata — STORR 1981 Lunelaps christieanus — MENGDEN 1983 Furina ornata — GOLAY et al. 1993: 137 Furina ornata — WELCH 1994: 63 Furina ornata — COGGER 2000: 653 Furina ornata —FERGUSON et al. 2012 Furina ornata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 298
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia) Type locality: "Australia, (Swan River?)".
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.21.76 Syntypes: AM R31928-31, from Port Darwin, N. T. [Brachysoma simile] Holotype: AM R4989, from Port Darwin, N. T. [Pseudelaps christieanus]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy partly after GOLAY et al. 1993. Venomous! Worrell (1945) found that Pseudelaps christeanus was not aggressive and only became more aroused “after continuous provocation” but is usually “handled without resistance”. Forced bites on his fingers “produced no irritating or otherwise ill effects”, given that this is a rather small snake.
Etymology	The Latin ornata, -us, = decorated" or "ornamented," refers to the ornate coloration.
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. Ferguson, D., Mathieson, M. & Eyre, T. 2012. Southerly range extension of the poorly known, Queensland endemic yellow-napped snake Furina barnardi (squamata: elapidae) into the Mulga Lands. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 56 (1): 9-12 - get paper here Fry, Dene B. 1915. Descriptions of two new species of Pseudelaps, and a key ot the genus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 27: 91- - get paper here Golay,P, H.M. SMITH, D.G. BROADLEY, J. R. DIXON, C., MCCARTHY, J. C. RAGE, B. SCHÀTTI & M.TORIBA 1993. Endoglyphs and other major venomous snakes of the world. A checklist. [type catalogue] Aire-Genève, Azemiops S. A. Herpetological Data Center: i-xv + 1-478. Gray, J. E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. Zoological Miscellany 2: 51—57 (London: Treuttel, Würtz & Co) - get paper here Longman, H. A. 1916. Snakes and lizards from Queensland and the Northern Territory. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 5: 46-51 - get paper here Macleay, W. 1878. Notes on a collection of snakes from Port Darwin. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 2: 219-222 - get paper here Mayer, M. 2014. Von Schlangen, Kröten und Krokodilen im tropischen „Top End“ Australiens. Ein Reise- und Studienbericht. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (110): 76-85 Mengden, Gregory A. 1983. The taxonomy of Australian elapid snakes: A review. Rec. Austral. Mus. 35 (5): 195-222 - get paper here O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Parkin, T., Jolly, C. J., de Laive, A., & von Takach, B. 2020. Snakes on an urban plain: Temporal patterns of snake activity and human–snake conflict in Darwin, Australia. Austral Ecology - get paper here Somaweera, R. 2009. Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney Storr, G. M. 1981. The genus Furina (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 9: 119-123 - 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. 1945. The orange-naped whipsnake. Proc. R. Zool. Soc. N. S. W. 1944-45: 32-33 - get paper here Worrell, E. 1961. Herpetological Name Changes. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 18—27. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/snakes/elapids/fornata.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Furina/ornata https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/246545044236768/ http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0FA39E43-910A-4F0C-902A… http://www.kingsnake.com/king/ssp.html http://www.redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp_fr/amphibiens_reptiles/amphibiens… Google images

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