Pseudonaja affinis GÜNTHER, 1872

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies	Pseudonaja affinis affinis GÜNTHER 1872 Pseudonaja affinis exilis STORR 1989 Pseudonaja affinis tanneri WORRELL 1961
Common Names	E: Dugite
Synonym	Pseudonaja affinis GÜNTHER 1872: 35 Demansia affinis — FRY 1914: 193 Demansia textilis affinis — LOVERIDGE 1934 Demansia nuchalis affinis — WORRELL 1961 Demansia nuchalis tanneri — WORRELL 1961: 56 Pseudonaja nuchalis affinis — WORRELL 1963 Pseudonaja affinis — COGGER 1983: 232 Pseudonaja affinis — COGGER 2000: 670 Dugitophis affinis affinis — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja affinis charlespiersoni HOSER 2009 Pseudonaja affinis charlespiersoni — HOSER 2012 (preliminary) Pseudonaja affinis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 604 Pseudonaja affinis — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017 Pseudonaja affinis — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024 Pseudonaja affinis exilis STORR 1989 Dugitophis affinis exilis — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja affinis exilis — HALLERMANN 2020 Pseudonaja affinis exilis — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024 Pseudonaja affinis tanneri WORRELL 1961 Demansia nuchalis tanneri WORRELL 1961 Dugitophis affinis tanneri — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja tanneri — BEOLENS et al. 2011 Pseudonaja affinis tanneri — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024
Distribution	Australia (South Australia, Western Australia) affinis: coastal SW Western Australia; Type locality: Australia exilis: Rottnest Island, Western Australia; Type locality: Rottnest Island, Western Australia. tanneri: Western Australia: Boxer Island and other offshore islands; Type locality: Boxer Island, REcherche Archipelago, Western Australia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.19.77. Holotype: WAM 19870 [exilis] Holotype: NMV D9819, from Boxer Is., Recherche Archipelago, W. A. [tanneri]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (749 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous!
References	Bush, B. 1981. Reptiles of the Kalgoorlie-Esperance Region. B. Bush, Perth, 46 pp - get paper here 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 CLEUREN, SILKE G.C.; MATTHEW B. PATTERSON, DAVID P. HOCKING, NATALIE M. WARBURTON & ALISTAIR R. EVANS. 2022. Fang shape varies with ontogeny and sex in the venomous elapid snake Pseudonaja affinis. Journal of Morphology 283(3): 287–295. - 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. Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - 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 Günther,A. 1872. Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 13-37 - 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 Hoser, R. 2009. Eight new taxa in the genera Pseudonaja Gunther 1858, Oxyuranus Kinghorn 1923, and Panacedechis Wells and Wellington 1985 (Serpentes:Elapidae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 4: 1-27 - get paper here Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23 Maryan, Brad 1996. The Dugite or spotted brown snake Pseudonaja affinis. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 26 (2): 22-34 Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A.R. & Weinstein, S.A. 2017. Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 pp. - get paper here Skinner, Adam 2009. A multivariate morphometric analysis and systematic review of Pseudonaja (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (1): 171-197 - get paper here Skinner, Adam; Stephen C. Donnellan; Mark N. Hutchinson and Rhonda G. Hutchinson 2005. A phylogenetic analysis of Pseudonaja (Hydrophiinae, Elapidae, Serpentes) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 37 (2): 558-571 - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1979. Dangerous Snakes of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Press 3rd edn., 24 pp. Storr, G.M. 1989. A new Pseudonaja (Serpentes, Elapidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Perth 14(3): 421–423 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. Wells, Richard W. 2002. Taxonomy of the Genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biodiversity Record (7): 1-41 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Wolfe, Ashleigh K; Philip W Bateman, Patricia A Fleming, 2018. Does urbanization influence the diet of a large snake? Current Zoology, Volume 64, Issue 3, June , Pages 311–318, - get paper here Worrell, E. 1961. A new insular brown snake. Proc. R. Zool. Soc. N. S. W. 1958-59: 56-58 - get paper here
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 https://sites.google.com/site/retruhservices/gallery http://www.liasis.net/ebooks/pseudonaja.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Pseudonaja/affinis Google images

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