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<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF92FFC2FF656684FDC7F30A" authority="De Vis 1884" authorityName="De Vis" authorityYear="1884" box="[151,576,1770,1797]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Antaioserpens" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="398" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="warro">
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF92FFC2FF656684FE15F30B" bold="true" box="[151,402,1770,1796]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="398">Antaioserpens warro</emphasis>
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(
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Vis 1884)
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<paragraph id="8BBEAB74FF92FFC2FF656760FED0F345" blockId="2.[151,576,1770,1866]" pageId="2" pageNumber="398">
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WARREGO BURROWING SNAKE (
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,
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<figureCitation id="133AB7F1FF92FFC2FF01675CFE86F345" box="[243,257,1842,1866]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1885,1907]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,906,1863]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,906,1863]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 2. (A) Dorsal scales of QM J 93427 from south central Qld showing irregular dark edging producing a speckled appearance. (B) Dorsal scales of QM J 57666 from north-eastern Qld with even dark edges producing a reticulated pattern (images: Peter Waddington, Qld Museum)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/262016/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="398">2</figureCitation>
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A, 3, 4)
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF92FFC2FF656717FE11F39D" bold="true" box="[151,406,1913,1938]" pageId="2" pageNumber="398">Specimens examined.</emphasis>
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: QM J188 (
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)
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Stn, Port Curtis. QM
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, Hill St, Charleville (
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,
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), Qld; QM
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, Orkadilla State Forest (
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,
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), Qld.
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF93FFC3FF65634AFE89F736" bold="true" box="[151,270,804,826]" pageId="3" pageNumber="399">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
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. Holotype of
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF93FFC3FE6F634AFDC6F735" box="[413,577,804,826]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="399">Cacophis warro</emphasis>
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De Vis 1884
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, QM J188,
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Station, Port Curtis, Qld (image: Peter Waddington, Qld Museum).
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF93FFC3FF656733FE91F37D" bold="true" box="[151,278,1885,1907]" pageId="3" pageNumber="399">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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(A) Dorsal scales of QM
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from south central Qld showing irregular dark edging producing a speckled appearance. (B) Dorsal scales of QM
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from north-eastern Qld with even dark edges producing a reticulated pattern (images: Peter Waddington, Qld Museum).
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FF6564F4FE95F0A0" bold="true" box="[151,274,1178,1200]" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FEEB64F5FE6AF0BF" box="[281,493,1179,1200]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">Antaioserpens warro</emphasis>
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, from Mitchell region (26°29'S, 147°28'E) Qld (image: Jamie Gover).
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FF3564B3FEC6F0F9" bold="true" box="[199,321,1245,1270]" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FEB564B0FE2FF0FA" box="[327,424,1246,1269]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">A. warro</emphasis>
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is distinguished from all other
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elapid snakes by the following suite of characters: eyes small; snout weakly shovel shaped, rostral scale lacking an acute transverse cutting edge; nasal and preocular scale separated by prefrontal / supralabial contact; two primary temporal scales; 15 midbody rows; subcaudals divided; a black bar between the eyes and another broad black bar across the nape; dorsal body scales irregularly dark-edged producing a speckled pattern.
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FF3565FFFEDEF1A5" bold="true" box="[199,345,1425,1450]" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">Description.</emphasis>
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A small fossorial elapid (SVL
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n = 3). Eye small; its diameter subequal, or less, than a straight line vertical distance to the ventral edge of subocular supralabial. Rostral large, about twice as broad as deep; weakly shovel-shaped and lacking an acute transverse cutting edge. Nasals in contact with 1st two supralabials, undivided. Internasals smaller than prefrontals which extend laterally contacting the 2nd or 2nd and 3rd supralabials. Nasal separated from preocular. Frontal longer than its distance from tip of snout and subequal in length to parietals (width 54.9–66.3% length). Preocular 1. Postocular 2. Supralabials 6. Temporals 2 + 2; lower primary temporal squarish and notched between the dorsal edges of 5th and 6th supralabials. Two pairs of chin shields, the 1st in broad contact with the first three infralabials. Midbody scale rows 15. Ventrals 139–150 (mean = 144, n = 3). Anal divided. Tail short (6.5–7.7% SVL, mean = 7.2, n = 3); Subcaudals 15–17 (mean = 15.7, n = 3), all divided.
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Colour pattern of
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(QMJ 188).
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The
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is now totally faded with the only record of its original pattern being the following brief description: ‘Brown, many of the scales irregularly edged with darker, producing a speckled appearance. On the nape, a very broad lunated collar. Upper surfaces of head, except tips of the occipitals, dark, but paler than nuchal collar’ (
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<collectingCountry id="F316EBE4FF94FFC4FD336723FD64F36A" box="[705,739,1869,1893]" name="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">De</collectingCountry>
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Vis, 1884a
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</bibRefCitation>
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). This description is in all ways consistent with the appearance of the recently collected specimens (QM
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& QM
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<accessionNumber id="94523697FF94FFC4FC52671FFC75F386" box="[928,1010,1905,1929]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/J93427" pageId="4" pageNumber="400" type="EnaNcbi">J93427</accessionNumber>
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) discussed below.
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF94FFC4FB35671EFE29F3A2" bold="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="400">Colour pattern of recent spirit specimens.</emphasis>
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Head with a distinct blackish hood that extends from the posterior margin of the parietals, or slightly beyond, to the tip of the snout and becomes increasingly diffuse on the prefrontals, internasals and rostral. Temporal region dark. Supralabials pale with irregular darker edges and flecks; marbled anteriorly. A broad, black collar on neck, ~ 6–8 scales long and ~ 12 scales wide; separated from head pattern by ~ 3–4 rows of paler scales. Body tan to olive brown above, each scale marked with irregular dark edging that produce a speckled pattern. A narrow, dark line sometimes present on caudal vertebral scales (3/
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<specimenCount id="9D0760FDFF95FFC5FC0D60B1FB08F4F7" box="[1023,1167,223,248]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" type="generic">5 specimens</specimenCount>
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). Venter off-white, with some dark blotching along outer edges of ventral scales.
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<collectingCountry id="F316EBE4FF95FFC5FCC9616AFCF6F512" box="[827,881,260,285]" name="China" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Chin</collectingCountry>
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shields and lower labials marbled with brown.
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF656149FC5FF54F" bold="true" box="[151,984,295,320]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Colour pattern of additional material for which there are no vouchers.</emphasis>
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The specimen from Charleville that was observed, but not photographed, is consistent with the above descriptions. The Mitchell specimen (
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<figureCitation id="133AB7F1FF95FFC5FB166122FAA1F56B" box="[1252,1318,332,357]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1178,1200]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,193,1156]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[151,1436,193,1157]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 3. Antaioserpens warro, from Mitchell region (26 ° 29 ' S, 147 ° 28 ' E) Qld (image: Jamie Gover)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/262017/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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) is similar in most respects except the head markings are less extensive, only reaching back as far as the mid- parietals. The snout markings are also more diffuse.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BBEAB74FF95FFC5FF3561D9FCE7F66F" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">
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<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF3561D9FDDDF5DF" bold="true" box="[199,602,439,464]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Comparison with similar species.</emphasis>
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FD9661D6FCD5F5DF" box="[612,850,440,464]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Antaioserpens" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="warro">
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||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FD9661D6FCD5F5DF" box="[612,850,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Antaioserpens warro</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is readily distinguished from its only congener,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FA7661D6FF73F5FA" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Brachyurophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="albiceps">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FA7661D6FF73F5FA" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">A. albiceps</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, by differences in colour pattern (dorsal scales with irregular dark edging producing a speckled appearance in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FF41626EFE91F617" box="[179,278,512,536]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Antaioserpens" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="warro">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF41626EFE91F617" box="[179,278,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">A. warro</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
vs. dorsal scales with even dark edges producing a reticulated pattern in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FBB1626EFB39F617" box="[1091,1214,511,536]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Brachyurophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="albiceps">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FBB1626EFB39F617" box="[1091,1214,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">A. albiceps</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
). It is distinguished from all other members of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FDE0624AFD0DF632" box="[530,650,548,573]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Vermicella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FDE0624AFD0DF632" box="[530,650,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Vermicella</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
subgroup (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF90D685FF95FFC5FCE6624AFC1DF633" author="Greer" box="[788,922,548,572]" pageId="5" pageNumber="407" refString="Greer, A. E. (1997) The biology and evolution of Australian snakes. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, 358 pp." type="book" year="1997">Greer 1997</bibRefCitation>
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||
)—
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FC32624AFB53F632" box="[960,1236,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FC32624AFBEFF632" box="[960,1128,548,573]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Brachyurophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Brachyurophis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FB88624AFB53F632" box="[1146,1236,548,573]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Neelaps" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Neelaps</taxonomicName>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FB1A624AFAE1F632" box="[1256,1382,548,573]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Simoselaps" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FB1A624AFAE1F632" box="[1256,1382,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Simoselaps</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FF656229FE88F66F" box="[151,271,583,608]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Vermicella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF656229FE88F66F" box="[151,271,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Vermicella</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in possessing two (vs. one) primary temporal scales.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C31BF8FFFF95FFC5FF356202FD62F7AA" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BBEAB74FF95FFC5FF356202FA03F6A7" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF356202FEE7F68A" bold="true" box="[199,352,620,645]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Distribution.</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<figureCitation id="133AB7F1FF95FFC5FE9D6202FE33F68A" box="[367,436,620,645]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1114,1136]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,195,1092]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[151,1436,195,1092]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 5. Distribution of A. albiceps ● (records from Atlas of Living Australia), holotype of Cacophis warro ■ and A. warro (▲)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/262019/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
|
||
). All recent records come from three localities in south central Qld; Charleville (
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FACF6202FA10F68A" box="[1341,1431,620,645]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="925" value="-26.4">26°24'S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FF6562E1FE85F6A7" box="[151,258,655,680]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="925" value="146.23334">146°14'E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
), Mitchell (
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FE7662E1FE58F6A7" box="[388,479,655,680]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="925" value="-26.483334">26°29'S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FE1962FEFDD4F6A7" box="[491,595,656,680]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="925" value="147.46666">147°28'E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
) and Orkadilla State Forest (north of Morven
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FBA562E1FB5EF6A7" box="[1111,1241,655,680]" direction="south" orientation="latitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="15" value="-26.099167">26°05'57"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE35CDB3FF95FFC5FB1662FEFAF0F6A7" box="[1252,1399,656,680]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" precision="15" value="147.21693">147°13'01"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BBEAB74FF95FFC5FF3562DAFD62F7AA" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF3562DAFEADF6C2" bold="true" box="[199,298,692,717]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Habitat.</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<figureCitation id="133AB7F1FF95FFC5FEC862DAFEF8F6C2" box="[314,383,692,717]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="7.[151,250,1982,2004]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,1104,1960]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[151,1436,1104,1961]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 6. Habitat of A. warro; Poplar Box (Eucalyptus populnea) / Cypress Pine (Callitris glaucophylla) shrubby woodlands, Orkadilla State Forest (26 ° 05 ' 57 " S, 147 ° 13 ' 01 " E) Qld (image: Stephen Peck)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/262020/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
|
||
). All recent specimens have been recorded from the eastern edge of the Brigalow Belt South and proximate areas of the Mulga Lands Bioregion. QM
|
||
<accessionNumber id="94523697FF95FFC5FCED62B6FCF4F6FF" box="[799,883,728,752]" httpUri="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/embl/J93427" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" type="EnaNcbi">J93427</accessionNumber>
|
||
, from Orkadilla State Forest, was collected from Poplar Box (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FEC06292FDA4F71A" box="[306,547,764,789]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Myrtales" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="populnea">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FEC06292FDA4F71A" box="[306,547,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Eucalyptus populnea</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) / Cypress Pine (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FD0F6292FC7EF71A" box="[765,1017,764,789]" class="Pinopsida" family="Cupressaceae" genus="Callitris" kingdom="Plantae" order="Pinales" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="glaucophylla">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FD0F6292FC7EF71A" box="[765,1017,764,789]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Callitris glaucophylla</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
) shrubby woodlands with a grassy ground cover on medium to coarse-grained sediments (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF90D685FF95FFC5FCE46371FBB0F737" author="Sattler" box="[790,1079,799,824]" pageId="5" pageNumber="407" refString="Sattler, P. & Williams, R. (1999) The conservation status of Queensland's bioregional ecosystems. Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane, 625 pp." type="book" year="1999">Sattler & Williams 1999</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). The Charleville and Mitchell specimens are without habitat descriptions but Poplar Box woodlands similar to the above description also occur at these locations. That one of the Charleville specimens came from a footpath in town suggests that the species can persist, to some degree, in human-impacted habitats.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C31BF8FFFF95FFC5FF3563C1FC5BF01F" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BBEAB74FF95FFC5FF3563C1FC5BF01F" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FF3563C1FEC8F7C7" bold="true" box="[199,335,943,968]" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">Comments.</emphasis>
|
||
We propose Warrego Burrowing Snake as a common name for this species after the name of the highway that traverses the recent collection sites. The name North-eastern Plain-nosed Burrowing Snake used by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF90D685FF95FFC5FF656396FEBAF01F" author="Cogger" box="[151,317,1016,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="407" refString="Cogger, H. G. (2014) Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 1033 pp." type="book" year="2014">Cogger (2014)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
, but first proposed by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF90D685FF95FFC5FDCA6399FD6DF01F" author="Ehmann" box="[568,746,1015,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="407" refString="Ehmann, H. (1992) Encyclopedia of Australian Animals, Reptiles. Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers Pty Ltd, Pymble, 495 pp." type="book" year="1992">Ehmann (1992)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
, refers to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C01D0F7FF95FFC5FCAB6396FC52F01F" box="[857,981,1015,1040]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Brachyurophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="401" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="albiceps">
|
||
<emphasis id="B9757766FF95FFC5FCAB6396FC52F01F" box="[857,981,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="401">A. albiceps</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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