Genus Furina Duméril, 1853

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• Furina Duméril, A.M.C. 1853. Prodrome général de la classification des serpents. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France 23: 399-536 [517].

  Type species:

   Calamaria diadema Schlegel, 1837 by monotypy (the only clearly available included species).
• Brachysoma Fitzinger, L.J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus Primus. Amblyglossae. Vienna : Braümüller et Seidel i-vi, 106 pp. [25] [non Brandt, 1835].

  Type species:

   Calamaria diadema Schlegel, 1837 by monotypy.
• Glyphodon Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [210].

  Type species:

   Glyphodon tristis Günther, 1858 by subsequent designation, see Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xiv 727 pp. 25 pls.
• Lunelaps Worrell, E. 1961. Herpetological name changes. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 18-27 [22].

  Type species:

   Pseudelaps christieanus Fry, 1915 by monotypy.
• Glyphodon [part.] Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [210].

  Type species:

   Glyphodon tristis Günther, 1858 by subsequent designation, see Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xiv 727 pp. 25 pls. [313].
• Mainophis Macleay, W. 1877. The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 33-41 [1878 on title page] [36].

  Type species:

   Mainophis robusta Macleay, 1877 by monotypy.

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. [225]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Channel Country (CHC)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Shine, R. 1981. Ecology of Australian elapid snakes of the genera Furina and Glyphodon. Journal of Herpetology 15: 219-224

Storr, G.M. 1981. The genus Furina (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 119-123

History of changes