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 G: Nördlicher Rotnackenotter
Synonym	Elaps ornatus GRAY 1842: 55 Brachysoma simile MACLEAY 1878: 221 Pseudelaps christieanus FRY 1915: 91 Furina christieanus — WORRELL 1945 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!
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 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 Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - 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
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 Google images

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