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 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	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: WAM 58877 (W.H. Butler, 9 Jan. 1972).
Diagnosis
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. 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://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:823DA8CA-9F68-444A-8460… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Suta/ordensis Google images

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