Smooth-scaled death adder
Appearance
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Smooth-scaled death adder | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Elapidae |
Genus: | Acanthophis |
Species: | A. laevis
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Binomial name | |
Acanthophis laevis Macleay, 1878
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The smooth-scaled death adder (Acanthophis laevis) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]A. laevis is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]A. laevis is ovoviviparous.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Acanthophis laevis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 February 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Macleay W (1878). "The Ophidians of the Chevert Expedition". The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 33–41. (Acanthophis laevis, new species, pp. 40–41).
- Wüster W, Dumbrell AJ, Hay C, Pook CE, Williams DJ, Fry BG (2005). "Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34 (1): 1–14.