Species Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider, 1799)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hydrus granulatus Schneider, J.G. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum Naturalis et Literariae. Jena : Frommani Fasc. 1 xvi 266 pp. [243].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Lampi Collection (presumed lost), locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  McDowell, S.B. 1979. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part III. Boinae and Acrochordoidea (Reptilia: Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 13: 1-92 (type material not located).
• Acrochordus fasciatus Shaw, G. 1802. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Pt. 2. Amphibia. London : Kearsley Vol. 3 pp. vii 313-615. [576, pl. 130].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (presumed lost), unknown (=India).

  Type locality references:

  Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Trustees of the British Museum xv 125 pp.
• Chersydrus annulatus Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Trustees of the British Museum xv 125 pp. [61].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1946.1.1.43–4 (Madras), Madras, India; BMNH 1946.1.15.68, Madras, India; BMNH 1946.1.1.40, Singapore; BMNH 1946.1.15.65, Sumatra, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [208]

 

Generic Combinations

• Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider, 1799).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, nectonic, noctidiurnal, piscivorous, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Ovoviviparous, primarily mangrove or estuarine littoral, but sometimes lotic freshwater, non-gregarious, perennially active.

 

General References

Dunson, W.A. & Minton, S.A. 1978. Diversity, distribution and ecology of Philippine marine snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 12: 281-286 (distribution, ecology)

Feder, M.E. 1980. Blood oxygen stores in the file snake Acrochordus granulatus and in other marine snakes. Physiological Zoology 53: 394-401 (physiology)

Heatwole, H. 1975. Voluntary submergence times of marine snakes. Marine Biology, Berlin 32: 205-213 (submergence times)

Heatwole, H. 1976. pp. 87–89 in, Reptile Ecology. Brisbane : Queensland University Press. (physiology)

Heatwole, H. 1977. Heart rate during breathing and apnea in marine snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 11: 67-76 (physiology)

Heatwole, H. 1981. Temperature relations of some sea snakes. The Snake 13: 53-57 (thermal ecology)

Heatwole, H. & Seymour, R. 1975. Pulmonary and cutaneous oxygen uptake in sea snakes and a file snake. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 51A: 339-405 (physiology)

Lemen, C.A. & Voris, H.K. 1981. A comparison of reproductive strategies among marine snakes. Journal of Animal Ecology 50: 89-101 (reproduction)

Voris, H.K. & Glodek, G.S. 1980. Habitat, diet and reproduction of the file snake, Acrochordus granulatus, in the Straits of Malacca. Journal of Herpetology 14: 108-111 (natural history)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Little Filesnake)

 

History of changes

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07-Feb-2024		22-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)