Elapognathus coronatus (SCHLEGEL, 1837)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Crowned Snake
Synonym	Elaps coronatus SCHLEGEL 1837: 454 Trimeresurus olivaceus GRAY 1841: 443 Elaps melanocephalus GRAY & NEILL 1845: 416 Alecto coronata — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1255 Denisonia coronata — BOULENGER 1896: 335 Denisonia coronata — KINGHORN 1924 Denisonia coronata — FLEAY 1952 Drysdalia coronata — WORRELL 1961: 25 Drysdalia coronata — COVENTRY & RAWLINSON 1980 Notechis coronatus — STORR 1982 Drysdalia coronata — COGGER 1983: 223 Drysdalia coronatus — HUTCHINSON 1990 Drysdalia coronata — WELCH 1994: 57 Drysdalia coronata — SHINE 1994 Drysdalia coronata — COGGER 2000: 645 Elapognathus coronata — KEOGH et al. 2000 Elapognathus coronatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 478 Elapognathus coronatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 264 Elapognathus coronatus — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 141
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia) Type locality: King George's Sound, W. A. (original description cites Australia) designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Lectotype: MNHN-RA 0321, designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980). Holotype: lost (presumed), from Australia [Trimeresurus olivaceus] Holotype: BMNH, from King George's Sound, W. A. [Elaps melanocephalus]
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Comment	Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983. Habitat: terrestrial Venomous!
Etymology	presumably from the Latin coronatus (crowned), in reference to the dark head. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Bush, B. & Maryan, B. 2006. Snakes and Snake-like Reptiles of Southern Western Australia. Snakes Harmful & Harmless, Stoneville, Perth, Western Australia, 40 pp. - 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. Coventry, A. J. & Rawlinson, P. A. 1980. Taxonomic revision of the elapid snake genus Drysdalia Worrell, 1961. Mem. Natl. Mus. Vict. 41: 65-78 - get paper here Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here Fleay, D. 1952. The crowned or coronated snake. Victorian Naturalist 68: 146-150 - get paper here Gray, J. E. & Neill, J. 1845. Catalogue of reptiles and fish, found at King George's Sound. Appendix in: Eyre, E. J. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1. London: T. & W. Boone 1: 412-418 Gray, J.E. 1841. A catalogue of the species of reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E, pp. 422-449. In: G. Grey, Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwestern and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's Government. T. and W. Boone, London. Vol. 2: 422-449 + plates - get paper here Guibé, J. & Roux-Estève, R. 1972. Les types de Schlegel (Ophidiens) présents dans les collections du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Zoologische Mededelingen 47: 129-134 - get paper here Hallermann, J. 2020. An annotated list of reptiles and amphibians from the 1905 Hamburg expedition to southwest Australia deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 61 - get paper here Hutchinson M N 1990. The generic classification of the Australian terrestrial elapid snakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29 (3): 397-405 - get paper here Keogh,J.S., Scott,I.A. & Scanlon,J.D. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of viviparous Australian elapid snakes: affinities of Echiopsis atriceps (Storr, 1980) and Drysdalia coronata (Schlegel 1837) with description of a new genus. Journal of Zoology 252: 317-326 - get paper here Kinghorn, J. Roy 1924. Reptiles and batrachians from south and south-west Australia. Rec. Austral. Mus. 14 (3): 163-183 - get paper here Schlegel, H. 1837. Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Descriptive. La Haye (J. Kips, J. HZ. et W. P. van Stockum), 606 S. + xvi - get paper here Shine, R. 1981. Venomous snakes in cold climates: ecology of the Australian genus Drysdalia (Serpentes : Elapidae). Copeia 1981 (1): 14-25 - get paper here Shine, Richard 1994. Sexual size dimorphism in snakes revisited. Copeia 1994 (2): 326-346 - get paper here Storniolo, F., Mangiacotti, M., Scali, S., Zuffi, M. A. L., & Sacchi, R. 2025. A comparative phylogenetic approach for the evolution of melanism in elapid snakes supports the Bogert's rule. Journal of Zoology 326: 289-297 - 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. 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.bio.usyd.edu.au/Shinelab/shine/papers4.html https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/526093499615253/ Google images

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