Species Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha (McCoy, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diemenia aspidorhyncha McCoy, F. 1879. The shield-fronted brown snake. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria 3: 13-14 [13, pl. 23 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV D12352, unstated locality; VIC by implication
  Comment: Restricted to junction of Murray River and Darling River, Victoria, by Coventry (1970).

  Type locality references:

  Coventry, A.J. 1970. Reptile and amphibian type specimens housed in the National Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 31: 115-124.
• Diemenia carinata Longman, H.A. 1915. Reptiles from Queensland and the Northern Territory. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 30-34 [31, pl. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J1508, Cane Grass Station, via Charleville, QLD.
• Demansia acutirostris Mitchell, F.J. 1951. The South Australian reptile fauna. Part 1. Ophidia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9: 545-557 [547 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA R3133, island in Lake Eyre, SA [28°26'S 137°24'E].
• Pseudonaja gowi Wells, R.W. 2002. Taxonomy of the genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biological Records 2002(7): 1-42.

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA Designated as 'the largest specimen of this species from the vicinity of Lyndhurst, SA, in the South Australian Museum collection'., Lyndhurst, South Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Skinner, A. 2009. A multivariate morphometric analysis and systematic review of Pseudonaja (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 171-197.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha (McCoy, 1879). —
  Wells, R.W. 2002. Taxonomy of the genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biological Records 2002(7): 1-42
• Pseudonaja carinata (Longman, 1915). —
  Wells, R.W. 2002. Taxonomy of the genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia. Australian Biological Records 2002(7): 1-42

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML)

General References

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. [233] (as a junior synonym of Pseudonaja nuchalis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		28-May-2012	ADDED