THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA - ELAPIDS

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION
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NORTHERN TERRITORY
ELAPID SNAKES - SPECIES LISTING

Distribution Key

SERPENTES(SNAKES)
Family Elapidae (Elapid Snakes)

The Elapid family are front fanged snakes and this family includes the Australian dangerous land snakes as well as the Cobras found overseas.
There are also many small species and many of those have weak venoms and are not dangerous to humans.

Sea Snakes are often been placed in their own family, however now many experts consider them to be in the Elapid family
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COMMON NAME (INTERNAL LINK)	SCIENTIFIC NAME (EXTERNAL LINK)	DISTRIBUTION
Barkly Death Adder	Acanthophis hawkei	NT, Qld? (Barkly Tablelands)
Desert Death Adder	Acanthophis pyrrhus	NT, Qld, SA, WA
Top End Death Adder Rough-scaled Death Adder or Papuan Death Adder	Acanthophis rugosus	NT, Qld?, New Guinea
Inland Narrow-banded Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis fasciolatus fasciolatus	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
Unbanded Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis (was Simoselaps) incinctus	NT, Qld
Arnhem Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis morrisi	NT
Northern Shovel Nosed Snake	Brachyurophis (was Simoselaps) roperi (split from Brachyurophis semifasciatus)	NT, WA
Half-girdled Snake or Southern Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis semifasciatus (was Simoselaps semifasciata)	NT, SA, WA
Northern (Western) Small-eyed Snake	Cryptophis (was Rhinoplocephalus) pallidiceps	NT, WA
Narrow-headed Whipsnake	Demansia angusticeps	NT, WA
Copper-tailed or Desert Whipsnake	Demansia cyanochasma previously known as Demansia reticulata cupreiceps	SA, NT, WA, Qld
Carpentaria Whipsnake	Demansia flagellatio	North-eastern Qld
Olive Whipsnake or Marble-headed Whipsnake	Demansia olivacea	WA, NT, Qld?
Greater Black (Papuan)Whip Snake	Demansia papuensis	NT, Qld, WA (not found in New Guinea)
Sombre Whipsnake	Demansia quaesitor	WA, NT, Qld
*Crack-dwelling Whipsnake	Demansia rimicola	NT, WA, Qld NSW, SA
Shine's Whipsnake	Demansia shinei	NT, WA
Grey Whipsnake	Demansia simplex	NT, WA
*Lesser Black Whip Snake or Black Whip Snake	Demansia vestigiata (was Demansia atra)	NT, Qld, WA
Orange-naped Snake	Furina ornata	NT, Qld, SA, WA
Inland Taipan or Fierce Snake	Oxyuranus microlepidotus	NSW, Qld, SA, Vic(?) NT?
Coastal Taipan	Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus	NSW, NT, Qld, WA
Western Desert or Central Ranges Taipan	Oxyuranus temporalis	WA, NT (no records From SA but likely to occur)
King Brown or Mulga Snake	Pseudechis australis	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
Eastern Pygmy Mulga Snake (False King Brown Snake)	Pseudechis pailsei	Qld, NT
Western Pygmy Mulga Snake (False King Brown Snake)	Pseudechis weigeli	WA, NT
Strap Snouted Brown Snake	Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha	SA, NSW, Qld, NT, Vic
Speckled Brown Snake	Pseudonaja guttata	NT, Qld, SA
Ingram's Brown Snake	Pseudonaja ingrami	NT, Qld
*Western Brown Snake	Pseudonaja mengdeni	SA, WA, NT, Qld, NSW, Vic?
Ringed Brown Snake	Pseudonaja modesta	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
*Northern Brown Snake	Pseudonaja nuchalis	NT, Qld, WA
Common or Eastern Brown Snake	Pseudonaja textilis	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA?
Northern Desert Banded Snake	Simoselaps anomalus	NT, SA, WA
Jan's Desert Banded Snake	Simoselaps bertholdi	NT, SA, WA
*Monk Snake or Hooded Snake	Suta (was Parasuta) monachus See also *Suta gaikhorstorum*	NT, SA, WA
Ord Curl Snake	Suta (was Denisonia) ordensis	NT(?), WA
Little Spotted Snake	Suta (was Rhinoplocephalus) punctata	NT, Qld, WA
Myall or Curl Snake	Suta (was Denisonia) suta	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
Bandy Bandy or Eastern Bandy Bandy	Vermicella annulata	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic
Intermediate Bandy Bandy	Vermicella intermedia	NT, WA (Far north of these states)
Northern Bandy Bandy or Narrow Banded Bandy Bandy	Vermicella multifasciata	NT, WA (Far north of these states)
Centralian Bandy Bandy	Vermicella vermiformis	NT (Central Australia)

Sea Snakes are now considered to be in the Elapid family - click on the link below for

A Listing of Sea Snakes of Northern Territory

DISTRIBUTION KEY
Click on the abbreviation below to see a map of the area

CI = Christmas Island	CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island	NSW = New South Wales
NT = Northern Territory	Qld = Queensland	SA = South Australia
Tas = Tasmania	Vic = Victoria	WA = Western Australia
NI = Norfolk Island	LHI = Lord Howe Island	ACT = Australian Capital Territory (Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)