Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Papuan whip snake |
Synonym | Diemenia papuensis MACLEAY 1877: 40 Diemenia psammophis BOULENGER 1896 Demansia olivacea papuensis Demansia papuensis — COGGER 1983: 221 Demansia papuensis melaena STORR 1978 Demansia papuensis — SHEA 1998 Demansia papuensis — COGGER 2000: 641 Demansia papuensis — SHEA & SCANLON 2007 Demansia papuensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 214 |
Distribution | Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia), S Papua New Guinea, Indonesia (Irian Jaya) ? [see comment].
papuensis: New Guinea
melaena: Australia (Kimberley region , NE Queensland); Type locality: Katherine, 14° 28' S, 132° 16' E, N. T.
Type locality: Papua New Guinea (probably Hall Sound).
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: AMS (AM) R31919 Holotype: WAM R47590 [melaena] |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Distribution: D. papuensis is now believed confined to Australia, despite its name, and D. atra in NG is now known as D. vestigata (Shea 1998). Distribution of subspecies after COGGER 2000.
Venomous! |
Etymology | Named after its distribution in Papua New Guinea. |
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.
- Escoriza Boj, D. 2005. Australia. Reptiles and Amphibians, Part 2: Desert and tropical savanna. Reptilia (GB) (41): 52-57 - get paper here
- Macleay, W. 1877. The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 2: 33-41 (given as 1878 on title page but published in 1877) - get paper here
- O'Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
- Shea, G M 1998. Geographic variation in scalation and size of the black whip snakes (Squamata: Elapidae: Demansia vestigiata complex): evidence for two broadly sympatric species. The Beagle 14: 41-61
- Shea, G.M. & Scanlon 2007. Revision of the small tropical whipsnakes previously referred to Demansia olivacea (Gray, 1842) and Demansia torquata (Guenther, 1862) (Squamata: Elapidae). Rec. Austral. Mus. 59 (2-3): 117-142 - get paper here
- Somaweera, R. 2009. Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney
- Storr G M 1978. Whip snakes (Demansia, Elapidae) of Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6 (3): 287-301 - 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.
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