Suta ordensis (STORR, 1984)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ord Curl Snake
Synonym	Denisonia ordensis STORR 1984: 254 Suta ordensis — STORR 1986 Suta ordensis — WELCH 1994: 109 Suta ordensis — COGGER 2000: 691 Suta ordensis — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Suta ordensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 691 Suta ordensis — MARYAN et al. 2020
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory?, Western Australia) Type locality: "Argyle Downs, W.A., in 16˚17'S, 128˚47'E."
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM 58877 (W.H. Butler, 9 Jan. 1972).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A large Denisonia, very like D. suta, but with little or no indication of hood or pale ocular stripe and with lower surfaces narrowly cross-banded with greyish-brown and white. (Storr 1984) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1314 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	From the type locality, the Ord River. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
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. Jolly, C., Schembri, B., & Macdonald, S. 2023. Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Northern Territory. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne - get paper here MARYAN, BRAD; IAN G. BRENNAN, MARK N. HUTCHINSON, LUKAS S. GEIDANS 2020. What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 4778 (1): 1–47 - get paper here Storr G M 1984. Revision of Denisonia suta (Serpentes: Elapidae) and the description of a new species closely related to it. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 11 (3): 249-257 - 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 http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Suta/ordensis Google images

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