Pseudonaja inframacula (WAITE, 1925)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Peninsula Brown Snake |
Synonym | Demansia textilis inframacula WAITE 1925: 26 Pseudonaja textilis inframacula WORRELL 1963 Pseudonaja affinis inframacula STORR 1986 Pseudonaja textilis — COGGER 1983: 234 Pseudonaja inframacula — COGGER 1992 Pseudonaja textilis inframacula — WELCH 1994: 105 Pseudonaja inframacula — COGGER 2000: 670 Euprepiosoma inframacula — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja inframacula — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Pseudonaja inframacula — WALLACH et al. 2014: 604 Pseudonaja inframacula — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017 |
Distribution | Australia (Southern Eyre Peninsula and southern Yorke Peninsula; geographically isolated populations occur near Nullarbor Station, west of Eyre Peninsula and on the North Neptunes and Wardang Island, Spencer Gulf) Type locality: N end of Coffin's Bay Peninsula, on W coast of Eyre Peninsula, S. A.; not included in Houston (1976). |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Syntypes: SAMA (2 specimens, not found and thus possibly lost, fide Cogger 1983) |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: SKINNER 2009. |
Comment | Venomous! |
Etymology | Presumably named after the Latin infra (below) plus macula (spot) in reference to the dark ventral spotting of this species. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024) |
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