Genus Demansia Günther, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Demansia Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [211].

  Type species:

   Lycodon reticulatus Gray, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Klemmer, K. 1963. Liste der rezenten Giftschlangen. Elapidae, Hydrophiidae, Viperidae und Crotalidae. Marburg : N.G. Elwert Universitäts- U. Verlagsbuchhand 253-464 pp.
• Demansia Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [54] [nom. nud., introduced in synonymy].
• Diemansia Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [254] [probably valid emend. pro Demansia Gray, 1842].
• Diemennia Günther, A. 1863. Notes on Diemenia superciliosa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 17-18 [17] [errore pro Diemenia Günther, 1863].
• Diemenia Günther, A. 1863. Third account of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 12: 348-365 [350] [non pinola, 1850; emend. pro Demansia Gray, 1842].
• Elapocephalus Macleay, W. 1878. Notes on a collection of snakes from Port Darwin. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 219-222 [221] [non Günther, 1858].

  Type species:

   Elapocephalus ornaticeps Macleay, 1878 by monotypy.
• Elapocranium Macleay, W. 1878. On a new species of Hoplocephalus, from Sutton Forest. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 52-54 [54] [nom. nov. pro Elapocephalus Macleay, 1878].
• Elapidocephalus Macleay, W. 1884. Census of Australian snakes with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 548-568 [1885 on title page] [560] [errore pro Elapocephalus Macleay, 1878].

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. [221]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, WA: Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Shea, G.M. & Scanlon, J.D. 2007. Revision of the Small Tropical Whipsnakes previously referred to Demansia oliviacea (Gray, 1842) and Demansia torquata (Günther, 1862) (Squamata: Elapidae). Records of the Australian Museum 59(2): 117-142 (revision of two species, recognised by authors as composite species; key to species of Demansia)

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