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 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
Distribution	Australia (Western Australia) Type locality: King George's Sound, W. A. (original description cites Australia) designated by Coventry & Rawlinson (1980).
Reproduction	ovovivparous
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]
Diagnosis
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 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 Northwest 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 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.bio.usyd.edu.au/Shinelab/shine/papers4.html https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/526093499615253/ https://accesspd.co.za/species/Rinkhals http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7BFD5FC9-556F-4C59-9246… Google images

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