Neelaps bimaculatus (DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black-naped Burrowing Snake, Western Black-naped Snake
Synonym	Furina bimaculata DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 1240 Furina bimaculata — FRY 1914: 197 Vermicella bimaculata — GLAUERT 1950 Narophis bimaculatus — WORRELL 1961 Simoselaps bimaculata — UNDERWOOD 1979 Neelaps bimaculatus — COGGER 1983: 228 Simoselaps bimaculata — HUTCHINSON 1990 Simoselaps bimaculatus — COGGER 1992 Simoselaps bimaculata — WELCH 1994: 107 Simoselaps bimaculatus — COGGER 2000: 684 Neelaps bimaculatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 486 Simoselaps bimaculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 662 Neelaps bimaculatus — COGGER 2014: 903 Neelaps bimaculatus — EIPPER & EIPPER 2019 Neelaps bimaculatus — SHEA 2021
Distribution	Australia (South Australia, Western Australia) Type locality: original type locality in error (see comment). Corrected to Perth, fide Storr (1968: 85). Restricted to W Australia fide Boulenger (1896a: 407).
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 3942, from Tasmania; data with holotype cites "Australia" as locality
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: burrowing Distribution: original type locality: "Tasmanie" [= Tasmania, in error fide Storr, 1968: 85).
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. Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536 - get paper here Fry, D. B. 1914. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians from Western Australia. Rec. West. Austral. Mus. 1:174-210 - 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 Shea, G. M. 2021. Dr. John Mair, Captain Collet Barker, and the discovery of the Australian Keelback, Tropidonophis mairii (Serpentes, Colubridae). Bibliotheca Herpetologica 15 (3): 18–28 - get paper here Storr G M 1978. Taxonomic notes on the reptiles of the Shark Bay region, Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6 (3): 303-318 - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1968. The genus Vermicella (Serpentes : Elapidae) in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. J. Royal Soc. Western Australia. 50: 80-92 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Neelaps/bimaculatus Google images

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