Hoplocephalus stephensii KREFFT, 1869

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Stephens's Banded Snake
Synonym	Hoplocephalus stephensii KREFFT 1869: 58 Hoplocephalus stephensii — COGGER 1983: 228 Hoplocephalus stephensii — WELCH 1994: 65 Hoplocephalus stephensii — COGGER 2000: 658 Hoplocephalus stephensii — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Hoplocephalus stephensii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 336
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales, Queensland) Type locality: Port Macquarie, on the Hastings River, N. S. W., fide Cogger (1979)
Reproduction	viviparous.
Types	Holotype: AMS (probably) = AM R37361; ZMB 8547 labelled "typus" but probably in error (COGGER 1983).
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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. Cogger,H.G. 1979. Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the Australian Museum. Rec. Austral. Mus. 32 (4): 163–210 - get paper here Daly, Garry and Glenn Hoye 2016. Survey of the reptiles of the montane forests near Dorrigo on the north coast of New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 38 (1): 26-42 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Krefft, G. 1869. The Snakes of Australia; an Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species. Sydney, Govt. Printer xxv + 100 pp. - get paper here Waite, Edgar R. 1905. Climbing habits of an Australian snake. Rec. Austral. Mus. 6 (1): 38 - 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 - Hoplocephalus stephensii - Near Threatened, NT National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/snakes/snakedetail.asp?TaxName=Hoplocephalus+stephensii http://www.wildherps.com/species/H.stephensii.html http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Hoplocephalus/stephensii http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/snakes/snakedetail.asp?TaxName=Hoplocephalus+stephensiiphoto: http://www.wildherps.com/species/H.stephensii.htmlinfo: http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdfinfo: http://www.arod.com.au/ar Google images

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