Species Vermicella annulata (Gray, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calamaria annulata Gray, J.E. 1841. A catalogue of the species of Reptiles and Amphibia hitherto described as inhabiting Australia, with a description of some new species from Western Australia. Appendix E. pp. 422–449 in Grey, G. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's Government. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2. [443].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.1.19.21, Australia.
• Elaps occipitalis 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. [1220].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 3936, Rio de Janeiro (errore) and Australia.
• Vermicella lunulata Krefft, G. 1869. The Snakes of Australia; an Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of all the Known Species. Sydney : Govt. Printer xxv 100 pp. [79, pl. 12 fig. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 6684, upper Burdekin River district, QLD.
• Rhynchelaps latizonatus De Vis, C.W. 1905. A new genus of lizards. Annals of the Queensland Museum 6: 46-52 pl. 15 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J192, QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Covacevich, J. 1971. Amphibian and reptile type specimens in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 49-68 [64].

 

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. [239]

 

Generic Combinations

• Vermicella annulata (Gray, 1841).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), 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 Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, desert, fossorial, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open heath, open scrub, predator, tall forest, tall shrubland, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Oviparous, feeds primarily on blind snakes (Typhlopidae).

 

General References

Bustard, H.R. 1969. Defensive display behaviour in the bandy-bandy Vermicella annulata (Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetologica 25: 319-320 (behaviour)

McDowell, S.B. 1969. Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae. Journal of Zoology, London 159: 443-511 (taxonomy)

Shine, R. 1980. Reproduction, feeding and growth in the Australian burrowing snake Vermicella annulata. Journal of Herpetology 14: 71-77 (reproduction and ecology)

Storr, G.M. 1968. The genus Vermicella (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 50(3): 80-92 [1967 on title page] (taxonomy)

 

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. [46] (Bandy-bandy)

 

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)