Species Suta monachus (Storr, 1964)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Denisonia monachus Storr, G.M. 1964. Denisonia monachus, a new elapid snake from Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 9: 89-90 [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM R20606, Kalgoorlie, WA [30°43'S 121°27'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Unechis monachus (Storr, 1964). —
  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 monachus (Storr, 1964). —
  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]
• Suta monachus (Storr, 1964). —
  McDowell, S.B. 1970. On the status and relationships of the Solomon Island elapid snakes. Journal of Zoology, London 161: 145-190
• Rhinoplocephalus monachus (Storr, 1964). —
  Storr, G.M. 1985. Phylogenetic relationships of Australian elapid snakes: external morphology with an emphasis on species in Western Australia. pp. 221-222 in Grigg, G., Shine, R. & Ehmann, H. (Eds.). Biology of Australasian Frogs and Reptiles. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons pp.x, 527. [222]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Semiarid to arid areas of southern Australia, from mid-west coast of WA to central and northwestern SA and southwestern NT

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, nocturnal, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Viviparous.

 

General References

Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033. [912] (as Parasuta monachus)

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 [21]

Storr, G.M. 1981. The Denisonia gouldii species-group (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 501-515 (taxonomy, as Denisonia monachus)

 

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] (Monk Snake)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Feb-2022	Hydrophiinae Fitzinger, 1843	09-Oct-2020	MODIFIED
25-Feb-2022	ELAPIDAE Boie, 1827	25-Sep-2020	MOVED
07-Feb-2024	ELAPIDAE	09-Feb-2016	MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024		26-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011		08-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)