Strap-snouted brown snake
| Strap-snouted brown snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Genus: | Pseudonaja |
| Species: | P. aspidorhyncha
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha (F. McCoy, 1879)
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The strap-snouted brown snake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.[2] P. aspidorhyncha is part of a species complex that also includes P. mengdeni and P. nuchalis; all were formerly included in the latter species.[3]
References
- ^ "Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Australian Biological Resources Study (28 May 2012). "Species Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha (McCoy, 1879)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Beatson, Cecilie. "Animal Species: Western Brown Snakes (nuchalis-complex)". Australian Museum. Australian Museum. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
Further reading
- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- McCoy F (1879). Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of All Classes of the Victoria Indigenous Animals. Volume I. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer. 634 pp. (Diemenia aspidorhyncha, new species, pp. 13-14 + Plate 23, figures 4, 4a).
- Wells, Richard W. (2002). "Taxonomy of the Genus Pseudonaja (Reptilia: Elapidae) in Australia". Australian Biodiversity Record (7): 1-41.