Species Demansia reticulata (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycodon reticulatus 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] [as 'hololectotype'].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1946.1.19.79, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Storr, G.M. 1978. Whip snakes Demansia (Elapidae) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6: 287-301.
• Demansia reticulata cupreiceps Storr, G.M. 1978. Whip snakes Demansia (Elapidae) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6: 287-301 [295].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R34555, Callagiddy, WA [25°02'S 11°401'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Demansia reticulata (Gray, 1842). —
  Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [212] (new combination)
  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

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread throughout the dry temperate, semiarid to arid areas of west coastal and adjacent interior and northwestern WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), 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 [140] (recognised in key with full species status by these authors)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024	SQUAMATA	31-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
04-Feb-2023	ELAPIDAE Boie, 1827	28-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		26-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)