Brachyurophis fasciolatus (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Narrow-banded Shovel-nosed Snake, Narrow-banded Burrowing Snake
Synonym	Rhinelaps fasciolatus GÜNTHER 1872: 34 Rhynchoelaps fasciolatus BOULENGER 1896 Vermicella fasciata STIRLING & ZIETZ 1893: 175 Hornea pulchella LUCAS & FROST 1896: 150 Rhynchelaps fasciolatus — THOMSON 1934 Simoselaps fasciolatus — COGGER 1983: 235 Simoselaps fasciolatus — HUTCHINSON 1990 Simoselaps fasciolatus fasciolatus — GOLAY 1993: 208 Simoselaps fasciolatus fasciata — GOLAY 1993: 209 Simoselaps fasciolatus — WELCH 1994: 107 Simoselaps fasciolatus — COGGER 2000: 684 Brachyurophis fasciolata fasciolata — STORR et al. 2002 Brachyurophis fasciolata fasciata — STORR et al. 2002 Brachyurophis fasciolatus — GREER 2006 (online) Brachyurophis fasciolatus — SANDERS et al. 2008 Brachyurophis fasciolatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 460 Brachyurophis fasciolatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 125
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia) fasciolatus: SW Australia fasciatus: C Australia Type locality: Perth, W. A.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.19.12 Holotype: SAMA R2935, from near the Barrow Range, W. A., vide Houston (1976) [Vermicella fasciata]. Holotype: NMV D 11226, from Charlotte Waters, N. T. [Hornea pulchella].
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983, who listed Vermicella fasciata STIRLING & ZIETZ 1893 as a synonym of Simoselaps fasciolatus. Venomous! Habitat: burrowing
Etymology	Presumably named after the Latin fasciolus (little band) plus -atus (possession of), referring to the body pattern. (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. Günther,A. 1872. Seventh account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 9: 13-37 - get paper here Houston, T. F. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum. III. Reptiles. [type catalogue] Rec. South Austral. Mus. 17: 181-187 - get paper here Lucas, A. H. S. & Frost, C. 1896. Reptilia. Report on the work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia. 2: 112-151 Sanders, K.L. et al. 2008. Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (Hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations. J. Evol. Biol. 21: 682 – 695 - get paper here Stirling, E. C., and A. Zietz. 1893. Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. Vertebrata. Mammalia, Reptilia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 16:154-176. - get paper here Storr, G. M. 1968. The genus Vermicella (Serpentes : Elapidae) in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. J. Royal Soc. Western Australia. 50: 80-92 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Thomson, D. F. 1934. A new snake from north Queensland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1934: 529-531 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:823DA8CA-9F68-444A-8460… http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/snakes/elapids/sfasciolata.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Brachyurophis… http://www.seh-herpetology.org/images/atlas/pdf/squamata/caumac.pdf http://www.bobgolding.co.uk/Zoological-Garden-University-of-Ibadan-Nigeria… Google images

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