Suta dwyeri (WORRELL, 1956)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Variable Black-naped Snake
Synonym	Denisonia dwyeri WORRELL 1956 Unechis dwyeri — COGGER 1983 Suta dwyeri — HUTCHINSON 1990 Suta dwyeri — VALENTIC 1998 Suta spectabilis dwyeri — COGGER 2000: 692 Parasuta dwyeri — GREER 2006 (online) Parasuta dwyeri — MICHAEL et al. 2011 Parasuta dwyeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 533 Parasuta spectabilis dwyeri — COGGER 2014: 913 Suta dwyeri — MARYAN et al. 2020
Distribution	Australia (New South Wales to S Queensland) Type locality: Glenmorgan, Qld.
Reproduction	ovovivparous.
Types	Holotype: AMS (AM) R14808
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	Named after John Dwyer, an Australian herpetologist and reptile collector who collected for Taronga Zoo, Sydney.
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. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Coventry, A. J. 1971. Identification of the black-headed snakes (Denisonia) within Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 88: 304-306 - get paper here Kay, G.M.; D. Michael; M. Crane; S. Okada; C. MacGregor; D. Florance; D. Trengove; L. McBurney; D. Blair; D.B. Lindenmayer. 2013. A list of reptiles and amphibians from Box Gum Grassy Woodlands in south-eastern Australia. Check List 9 (3):476-481 - get paper here MARYAN, BRAD; IAN G. BRENNAN, MARK N. HUTCHINSON, LUKAS S. GEIDANS 2020. What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 4778 (1): 1–47 - get paper here Michael, D.R.; D.B. Lindenmayer. 2011. Diplodactylus tessellatus Gunther, 1875 (Squamata: Diplodactylidae), Parasuta dwyeri Greer, 2006 and Suta suta Peters, 1863 (Squamata: Elapidae): Distribution extension in the Murray catchment of New South Wales, South-eastern Australia. Check List 7 (5): 578-580 - get paper here Michael, D.R.; D.B. Lindenmayer; M. Crane; C. MacGregor; R. Montague-Drake; L. McBurney. 2011. Reptilia, Murray catchment, New South Wales, southeastern Australia. Check List 7 (1):25-29 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Valentic, Rob. 1998. A size record and further distributional data for Suta dwyeri (Elapidae) in the Sydney Basin. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 28 (1): 30-31. 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. 1956. A new snake from Queensland. Australian Zoologist 12: 202-205
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.kingsnake.com/oz/snakes/elapids/elapids.htm http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/elapidae.pdf http://zoobank.org/6E91FE2B-A4E7-4A7E-BD68-A9C883760883 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:823DA8CA-9F68-444A-8460… http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/features/snakes/snakedetail.asp?TaxName=Suta… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Parasuta/dwyeri Google images

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