Species Suta dwyeri (Worrell, 1956)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Denisonia dwyeri Worrell, E. 1956. A new snake from Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 12: 202-205 [202 fig. 1] [taxonomic status uncertain].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R14808, Glenmorgan, QLD.
• Parasuta robertsoni Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series 1: 1-61 [Date published September, 1985] [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R116987 (previously AMF 16530), 9.8 km along Bruxner Highway, from the New England Highway at Tenterfield, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Unechis dwyeri (Worrell, 1956). —
  Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [238]
• Parasuta dwyeri (Worrell, 1956).
• Suta dwyeri (Worrell, 1956). —
  Maryan, B., Brennan, I.G., Hutchinson, M.N. & Geidans, L.S 2020. What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 4778(1): 1-47 [7] (changed combination by placing Parasuta as junior synonym of Suta)
• Parasuta spectabilis dwyeri (Worrell, 1956). —
  Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033. [913]

 

Introduction

Difficult to distinguish from S. nigriceps where the two species overlap and further work is required across the distributions of the two species to clarify their relationships, see Maryan et al. (2020) for details.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Central and eastern QLD & NSW but mostly west of the Great Dividing Range to central VIC, and east into SA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

General References

Coventry, A.J. 1971. Identification of the black-headed snakes (Denisonia) within Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 88: 304-306 (general, in VIC)

Maryan, B., Brennan, I.G., Hutchinson, M.N. & Geidans, L.S 2020. What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 4778(1): 1-47 [35]

 

Common Name References

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [45] (Dwyer's Snake)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Feb-2022	Hydrophiinae Fitzinger, 1843	10-Oct-2020	MODIFIED
25-Feb-2022	ELAPIDAE Boie, 1827	25-Sep-2020	MOVED
07-Feb-2024		26-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)