Pseudonaja mengdeni WELLS & WELLINGTON, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Gwardar, Western brownsnake
Synonym	Pseudonaja mengdeni WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Pseudonaja kellyi WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Pseudonaja kellyi — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja mengdeni — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja mengdeni — WELLS 2002 Pseudonaja mengdeni — SKINNER 2009 Pseudonaja mengdeni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 605
Distribution	Australia (Western and central Australia, from Carnarvon, Western Australia, to Mootwingee National Park, western New South Wales) Type locality: 2 km east of Maryvale, Northern Territory.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: NTM R1989
Diagnosis	Diagnosis in SKINNER 2009.
Comment	Diemenia aspidorhyncha MCCOY 189 and Pseudonaja mengdeni WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 have been removed from the synonymy of P. nuchalis by SKINNER 2009. Venomous!
References	Brennan, Karl E. C., Morley, Terry, Hutchinson, Mark, and Donnellan, Steve 2012. Redescription of the western desert taipan, Oxyuranus temporalis (Serpentes : Elapidae), with notes on its distribution, diet and genetic variation. Australian Journal of Zoology 59: 227–235 - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Dittmer, D. E., Chapman, T. L. & Bidwell, J. R. 2020. In the shadow of an iconic inselberg: Uluru’s shadow influences climates and reptile assemblage structure at its base. J. Arid Environ. 181, 104179 (2020) - 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 O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Skinner, Adam 2009. A multivariate morphometric analysis and systematic review of Pseudonaja (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (1): 171-197 - 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. Wells, R. W. and Wellington, C. R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series (1): 1-61 [sometimes cited as 1983] - get paper here Wells, Richard W. 2002. Taxonomy of the Genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biodiversity Record (7): 1-41 Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Pseudonaja/mengdeni Google images

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