Denisonia devisi (WAITE & LONGMAN, 1920)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: De Vis's Banded Snake, De Vis Banded Snake
Synonym	Hoplocephalus ornatus DE VIS 1884 (non Denisonia ornata KREFFT 1869) Denisonia maculata devisi WAITE & LONGMAN 1920: 178 (nom. nov. pro Hoplocephalus ornatus) Denisonia devisi — COGGER 1983: 222 Denisonia devisi — WELCH 1994: 55 Denisonia devisi — COGGER 2000: 644 Denisonia devisi — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Denisonia devisi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 226 Denisonia devisi — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 132
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria) Type locality: near Surat, Qld. [Hoplocephalus ornatus]
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J199
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Comment	Venomous! Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	named after Charles Walter De Vis (1829-1915). For biographical notes on De Vis see Williams et al. (2006).
References	Allen, W. L., R. Baddeley, N. E. Scott-Samuel, and I. C. Cuthill. 2013. The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes. Behav. Ecol. 24:1237– 1250 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Clemann, N.; Robertson, P.; Gibbons, D.; Heard, G.; Steane, D.; Coventry, A.J.; Chick, R. 2007. An addition to the snake fauna of Victoria: De Vis' banded snake Denisonia devisi (Serpentes: Elapidae) Waite and Longman. Victorian Naturalist 124 (1):33-37 - get paper here 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. De Vis, CW. 1884. On a new Species of Hoplocephalus. Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 1: 100 - get paper here Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here Mackay, R. D. 1956. The status of Denisonia maculata Steindachner and related species. (Ophidia: Elapidae). Proc. R. Zool. Soc. N. S. W 1954-55: 29-33 Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here Waite, E. R. & Longman, H. A. 1920. Description of little-known Australian snakes. Rec. South Austral. Mus. 1: 173-180 - 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. Williams, D.; Wüster, W. & Fry, B.G. 2006. The good, the bad and the ugly: Australian snake taxonomists and a history of the taxonomy of Australia’s venomous snakes. Toxicon 48: 919–930 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Worrell, E. 1961. Herpetological Name Changes. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 18—27. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf map:http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/snakes/elapids/ddevisii.htm http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Denisonia/devisi https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/555527950005141/ Google images

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