Demansia cyanochasma NANKIVELL, MARYAN, BUSH & HUTCHINSON, 2023
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Demansia cyanochasma
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Demansia cyanochasma NANKIVELL, MARYAN, BUSH & HUTCHINSON 2023 |
| Distribution | Australia (South Australia) Type locality: Moonaree Station, Gawler Ranges (-31.7017, 135.5319), South Australia, Australia |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. SAMA R48865 (Fig. 8), male, collected by H. Ehmann, 2 November 1996. Fixed in 10% formalin, stored in 70% ethanol; liver tissue stored at SAMA as ABTC58583. Paratypes: MAGNT, SAMA, WAM, |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A medium-sized Demansia with more than 172 ventrals and with a cream-edged black transrostral line typically only extending to the nostrils, lacking any traces of hood or collar markings, and combining a variable body colour of shades of bluish grey or grey with brown head and posterior body and tail, indistinct dark margins on the body scales, a relatively short dark tail on comma-shaped circumorbital marking typically extending to the fifth supralabial and occasionally contacting or continuing on to the lower primary temporal, ventral surface white to bluish white. (Nankivell et al. 2023) |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in Nankivell et al. 2023: Figure 5. |
| Etymology | The specific name cyanochasma is modified from the Greek words kyanos meaning blue and khasma meaning space or expanse, alluding to the bluish grey anterior body colour of this species and reference to its distribution filling the geographical space between D. psammophis and D. reticulata. Used as a noun in apposition. |
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