Species Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

• Furina textilis 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. [1242].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 3944 (not found), Australia.
• Pseudoelaps superciliosus Fischer, J.G. 1856. Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischenhte Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Hamburg 3: 79-116 [107, pl. 2 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH 362, 'New Holland (Sydney)' in original description; type labelled Sydney, NSW.
• Demansia annulata Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xvi 281 pp. [213].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.1.17.54, Australia.
• Pseudoelaps kubingii Jan, G. 1859. Plan d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces des Serpents. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 11–12: 122-130 [127] [also Jan, G. 1859. Prodrome d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces de Serpents venimeux.. Reprinted from: Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)10 and (2)11-12, 1858 and 1859. Paris : Bouchard-Huzard. 32 pp. pl. C].

  Type data:

   Holotype Pesth [Budapest] (presumed lost or destroyed), NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Jan, G. 1859. Prodrome d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces de Serpents venimeux. Reprinted from: Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)10 and (2)11-12, 1858 and 1859. Paris : Bouchard-Huzard. 32 pp.
• Pseudoelaps sordellii Jan, G. 1859. Plan d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces des Serpents. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 11–12: 122-130 [127] [also Jan, G. 1859. Prodrome d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces de Serpents venimeux.. Reprinted from: Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)10 and (2)11-12, 1858 and 1859. Paris : Bouchard-Huzard. 32 pp. pl. C; as P. sordellii].

  Type data:

   Holotype MSNM (not found), Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Jan, G. 1859. Prodrome d'une Iconographie descriptive des Ophidiens, et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces de Serpents venimeux. Reprinted from: Rev. Mag. Zool. (2)10 and (2)11-12, 1858 and 1859. Paris : Bouchard-Huzard. 32 pp.
• Pseudoelaps kubinyi Jan, G. 1863. Elenco Sistematico Degli Ofidi Descritti e Disegnati per l'Iconografia Generale. Milan : A. Lombardi 143 pp. [116] [as P. kubinyi, emendation or lapsus for Pseudoelaps kubingii Jan, 1859].
• Cacophis guntheri Steindachner, F. 1867. Reptilien. pp. 1–98 in, Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorff-Urbair. Zoologie 1(3). Vienna : State Printer. [1869 on title page] [91, fig.].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found), Australia.
• Diemenia superciliaris McCoy, F. 1867. On the recent zoology and palaeontology of Victoria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 175-202 [182] [lapsus for Pseudoelaps superciliosus Fischer, 1856].
• Pseudoelaps beckeri Jan, G. & Sordelli, F. 1873. Iconographie Générale des Ophidiens. Atlas. Milan : Jan & Sordelli 43 pp. [pl. 4 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH not found, Sydney, NSW.
• Furina bicucullata McCoy, F. 1879. The two-hooded furina snake. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria 4: 13-15 [13, pl. 32].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV D1832, Longwood, VIC; original description cites Longwood, VIC and Benalla, VIC.

  Subsequent designation 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.
• Furina cucullata Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xiv 727 pp. 25 pls. [325] [lapsus for Furina bicucullata McCoy, 1879].
• Pseudechis cupreus Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). 3. London : British Museum xiv 727 pp. 25 pls. [329] [description based on literature records, see also under Pseudechis australis (Gray, 1842)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Murray River (NSW/VIC).
• Pseudonaja ohnoi Wells & Wellington, 1985.

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM R1970, Mount Gillen, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia [23°43'S 133°48'E].

 

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. [234]
• Horner, P. 1999. Type specimens of terrestrial vertebrates in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory - 1973 to 1999. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 15: 55-74

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Extra-limital in eastern Papua New Guinea

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, open forest, open heath, open scrub, oviparous, predator, tall forest, terrestrial, tussock grassland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

General carnivore.

 

General References

Coulter, A.R., Broad, A.J. & Sutherland, S.K. 1979. Isolation and properties of a high molecular weight neurotoxin from the eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis). 160 in Chubb, I.W. & Greffen, L.B. (eds). Neurotoxins: Fundamental and Clinical Advances. Adelaide : Adelaide University Union Press. (venom)

Gillam, M.W. 1979. The genus Pseudonaja (Serpentes: Elapidae) in the Northern Territory. Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission Research Bulletin 1: 1-28 (taxonomy)

Shine, R. 1979. Activity patterns in Australian elapid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetologica 35: 1-11 (behaviour)

Wells, R. 1980. Eggs and young of Pseudonaja textilis textilis. Herpetofauna 12: 30-32 (reproduction)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Eastern Brown Snake)

 

History of changes

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