Species Furina ornata (Gray, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elaps ornatus Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of some hitherto unrecorded species of Australian reptiles and batrachians. pp. 51-57 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würz & Co. [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1946.1.21.76, 'Australia, (Swan River?)'.
• Brachysoma simile Macleay, W. 1878. Notes on a collection of snakes from Port Darwin. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 219-222 [221].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM R31928–31, Port Darwin, NT.
• Pseudelaps christieanus Fry, D.B. 1915. Herpetological notes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 27: 60-95 [91, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM R4989, Port Darwin, NT.

 

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. [225]

 

Generic Combinations

• Furina ornata (Gray, 1842).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, cryptozoic, desert, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, oviparous, predator, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Lacertiphagous.

 

General References

Cogger, H.G. & Lindner, D.A. 1974. Frogs and reptiles in fauna survey of the Port Essington District, Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory of Australia. In Frith, H.J. & Calaby, J.H. (eds) CSIRO Div. Wildl. Res. Tech. Pap. 28: 63–107. (taxonomy as F. diadema)

Storr, G.M. 1981. The genus Furina (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 119-123 (taxonomy)

Worrell, E. 1945. The orange-naped whipsnake. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1944–45: 32-33 (natural history as F. christieanus)

 

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Orange-naped Snake)

 

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)