Species Furina diadema (Schlegel, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calamaria diadema Schlegel, H. 1837. Essai sur la Physionomie des Serpens. Partie Générale et Partie Descriptive. La Haye : Kips & Stockum Vol. 2 xv 606 pp. [32] [as C. diadema].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 3941, Australia; MNHP 7668.

  Type locality references:

  Duméril, A.M.C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. 1854. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 7(2) 781-1536 pp.
• Rabdion occipitale Girard, C. 1858. Descriptions of some new reptiles, collected by the U.S. Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. C. Wilkes, U.S.N. Third Part. Including the species of ophidians, exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1857: 181-182 [181].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, not located, Australia.
• Cacophis blackmanii Krefft, G. 1869. The Snakes of Australia; an Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of all the Known Species. Sydney : Govt. Printer xxv 100 pp. [pl. 17 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 6674, Pine Mountain, near Ipswich, QLD.
• Denisonia bancrofti De Vis, C.W. 1911. Description of snakes apparently new. Annals of the Queensland Museum 10: 22-25 [23].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM J195, Stannary Hills, QLD; QM J12881 (see Covacevich, J. 1971. Amphibian and reptile type specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 49–68 [62]).

 

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]

 

Generic Combinations

• Furina diadema (Schlegel, 1837).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, oviparous, predator, tall forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Lacertiphagous.

 

General References

Lorking, W. 1954. The red-naped snake. Reptilia (Aust. Rept. Club) 1: 10 (natural history)

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

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Red-naped Snake)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		26-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)