Species Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, Ellis, Doughty, Smith & Wüster, 2015

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• Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, S.T., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Smith, L.A. & Wüster, W. 2015. A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007(3): 301-326 [308].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R174083 ♂, 1 km north-west of Theda Station homestead, Western Australia [14°46'59.10"S, 126°29'22.02"E].
  Paratype(s) WAM R70690 sub-adult ♂ (Holotype of A. lancasteri Wells & Wellington 1985), 45 km north-northeast Halls Creek, WA [17°51'00"S, 127°50'00"E]; WAM R81245 adult ♂, Packsaddle Springs, near Kununurra, WA [15°54'00"S, 128°41'00"E]; WAM R165567 adult ♂, Koolan Island, WA [16°08'04"S, 123°45'05"E]; WAM R168918 adult ♀, Boongaree Island, WA [15°4'39.36"S, 125°11'13.56"E]; WAM R172034 adult ♀, north-west Molema Island, WA [16°14'17"S, 123°49'49"E]; WAM R103755 adult ♂, Surveyors Pool, Mitchell River National Park, WA [14°39'46"S, 125°44'34"E].
• Acanthophis lancasteri Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [43-44] [nomen nudum; nomen nudum, see Aplin & Donnellan (1999), Wellington (2016) and Ellis et al. (2021)].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R70690 1 adult, 45 Km NNE of Halls Creek, WA.

  Secondary source:

   Aplin, K.P. & Donnellan,S.C. 1999. An extended description of the Pilbara death adder, Acanthophis wellsi Hoser (Serpentes: Elapidae), with notes on the desert death adder, A.Pyrrhus Boulenger, and identification of a possible hybrid zone. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 277–298 [277]; Wellington, R. 2016. Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, Ellis, Doughty, Smith & Wüster, 2015 is an invalid junior synonym of Acanthophis lancasteri Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Elapidae). Bionomina 10: 74-75; Ellis, R.J., Kaiser, H., Maddock,S.T., Doughty, P. & Wuster, W. 2021. An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder. Zootaxa 4995: 161-172.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kimberley regions of WA east to NT border, a single specimen possibly from NT

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

General References

Storr, G.M. 1981. The genus Acanthophis (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Austalia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9(2): 203-210

Storr, G.M., Smith, L.A. & Johnstone, R.E. 2002. Snakes of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 2 Ed., pp. 309.

 

Common Name References

Maddock, S.T., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Smith, L.A. & Wüster, W. 2015. A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007(3): 301-326 [308] (Kimberley Death Adder)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	ELAPIDAE Boie, 1827	28-Nov-2022	ADDED