Short-nosed snake
Short-nosed snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Elapidae |
Genus: | Elapognathus Boulenger, 1896 |
Species: | E. minor |
Binomial name | |
Elapognathus minor (Günther, 1863) | |
Distribution of the short-nosed snake | |
Synonyms[1] | |
The short-nosed snake (Elapognathus minor ) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
References
- ↑ "Elapognathus minor". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History).Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Elapognathus minor, new combination, pp. 356–357 + Plate XIX, figure 2).
- Günther A. 1863. "Third Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Third Series 12: 348-365. (Hoplocephalus minor, new species, pp. 362–363).
External links
- Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. Elapognathus minor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
- Keogh JS, Scott IA, Scanlon JD. 2000. "Molecular phylogeny of viviparous Australian elapid snakes: affinities of Echiopsis atriceps (Storr, 1980) and Drysdalia coronata (Schlegel, 1837), with description of a new genus". J. Zool. 252: 317-326.
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