Short-nosed snake

Short-nosed snake
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)
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
Hoplocephalus minor Günther, 1863 Elapognathus minor — Boulenger, 1896 Notechis minor — Storr, 1982 Elapognathus minor — Cogger, 1983

The short-nosed snake (Elapognathus minor ) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

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.