Suta punctata (BOULENGER, 1896)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Spotted Snake, Little Spotted Snake
Synonym	Denisonia punctata BOULENGER 1896: 341 Suta punctata MCDOWELL 1970 Denisonia punctata — SMITH 1980 Denisonia punctata — COGGER 1983: 223 Rhinoplocephalus punctatus STORR 1984 Suta punctata — WELCH 1994: 109 Suta punctata — COGGER 2000: 691 Suta punctata — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Suta punctata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 691 Suta punctata — MIRTSCHIN et al. 2017 Suta punctata — MARYAN et al. 2020
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) Type locality: Port Walcott, W. A.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.20.76 (formerly 89.5.13.8), collected Capt J.R. Beckett.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Distinguished from other Denisonia by having 15, rather than 17 rows of scales at midbody. (Smith 1980) Additional details (2228 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin punctatus (spotted), referring to the color pattern. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 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. 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 Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A.R. & Weinstein, S.A. 2017. Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 pp. - 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 Smith, L. A. 1980. Taxonomy of Denisonia punctata and Denisonia fasciata (Serpentes: Elapidae). Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 8: 327-333 - get paper here Somaweera, R. 2009. Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney 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://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?stat=BROWSE_IMG&query_src… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Suta/punctata Google images

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