Suta nigriceps (GÜNTHER, 1863)
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Mallee Black-backed Snake |
Synonym | Hoplocephalus nigriceps GÜNTHER 1863: 362 Denisonia nigrostriata brevicauda MITCHELL 1951: 550 Unechis brevicaudus COGGER 1975 Denisonia nigriceps — STORR 1981 Unechis nigriceps — MENGDEN 1983 Unechis nigriceps — COGGER 1983: 238 Rhinoplocephalus nigriceps — STORR 1984 Suta nigriceps — HUTCHINSON 1990 Suta nigriceps — COGGER 2000: 691 Parasuta nigriceps — GREER 2006 (online) Parasuta nigriceps — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 492 Parasuta nigriceps — WALLACH et al. 2014: 534 Suta nigriceps — MARYAN et al. 2020 |
Distribution | Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia) |
Reproduction | ovovivparous. |
Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.20.70, "probably from Australia". Holotype: SAMA R3137, from Fowler's Bay, S. A. [Denisonia nigrostriata brevicauda]. |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous! Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
Etymology | Named after the black head, from Latin nigra = black and -ceps, short for head. |
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