| Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Southern Desert Banded Snake, Desert Banded Snake |
| Synonym | Elaps bertholdi JAN 1859: 123
Vermicella bertholdi — OGILBY 1891
Elaps mattozoi FERREIRA 1891: 93
Furina robusta DE VIS 1905: 51
Rhynchelaps bertholdi — THOMSON 1934
Rhynchoelaps bertholdi WORRELL 1960
Simoselaps bertholdi MENGDEN 1983
Simoselaps bertholdi — COGGER 1983: 235
Simoselaps bertholdi — WELCH 1994: 107
Simoselaps bertholdi — COGGER 2000: 683
Simoselaps bertholdi — SANDERS et al. 2008
Simoselaps bertholdi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 675 |
| Distribution | Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia)
Type locality: Australia (by implication).
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZFMK 36402 (formerly ZMG 191a)
Holotype: MB (presumed lost), from Victoria [Elaps mattozoi].
Holotype: QM J205, from Coolgardie, W. A. [Furina robusta]. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): “A group of small (less than 0.6 m total length), glossy scaled semi-fossorial snakes with anal divided, short tails with 35 or fewer paired subcaudals and showing variation in snout shape and body proportions analogous to those seen in Ramphotyphlops. Rostral always projecting but varying in profile from bulbous (e.g. bimaculatus) to wedge-shaped (e.g. fasciolatus) to upturned and angular (e.g. semifasciatus). No canthus rostralis. Body short and dumpy to elongate, but ventral fewer than 230. Dark parietal and nuchal blotches always present, body usually yellow, orange or reddish, generally with darker reticulated or cross-banded pattern.” (Hutchinson 1990: 403) |
| Comment | Synonymy partly after COGGER 1983.
Venomous!
Habitat: burrowing
Type species: Elaps bertholdi JAN 1859: 123 is the type species of the genus Simoselaps JAN 1859. |
| Etymology | Named after Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861), German physician and naturalist. |
| References |
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