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The name
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Diagnosis: A short bodied, thickset, highly venomous snake of the genus
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, Fig. 2).
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. Once again, it is clear that Storr was describing and diagnosing his concept of the single species
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. Nothing in Storrs paper explicitly restricts the applicability of his description to Western Australian
<taxonomicName id="4C692AAE8774A81AFD713F5AFC62FDAB" baseAuthorityName="Shaw &amp; Nodder" baseAuthorityYear="1802" box="[767,926,576,602]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Acanthophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="169" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="antarcticus">
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFD713F5AFC62FDAB" box="[767,926,576,602]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">A. antarcticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Consequently, as in the cases listed earlier, Storrs description cannot act as a “description or definition […] purported to differentiate
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFB053F79FB0AFD8F" bold="true" box="[1163,1270,611,638]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">the taxon</emphasis>
.”
<taxonomicName id="4C692AAE8774A81AFA9E3F7EFDE2FD52" authority="Wells &amp; Wellington, 1985" authorityName="Wells &amp; Wellington" authorityYear="1985" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Acanthophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="169" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="schistos">
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFA9E3F7EFF0CFD53" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">Acanthophis schistos</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF82CDC8774A81AFF793F92FDE2FD52" author="Wells, R. W. &amp; Wellington, C. R." box="[247,542,648,675]" pageId="8" pageNumber="169" pagination="1 - 61" refId="ref9592" refString="Wells, R. W. &amp; Wellington, C. R. (1985) A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology Supplementary Series, 1, 1 - 61." type="journal article" year="1985">Wells &amp; Wellington, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
is therefore not compliant with Article 13.1. of the
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFBE63F92FB5FFD53" box="[1128,1187,648,674]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">Code</emphasis>
, and a
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFB783F93FA69FD53" box="[1270,1429,648,674]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">nomen nudum</emphasis>
. The current valid name of these snake populations is
<taxonomicName id="4C692AAE8774A81AFD623FB6FC74FD37" baseAuthorityName="Shaw &amp; Nodder" baseAuthorityYear="1802" box="[748,904,684,710]" class="Reptilia" family="Elapidae" genus="Acanthophis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="169" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="antarcticus">
<emphasis id="B91D8D3F8774A81AFD623FB6FC74FD37" box="[748,904,684,710]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">A. antarcticus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="13524DA88774A81AFC193FB6FC0CFD37" box="[919,1008,684,710]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1092,1116]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,179,1066]" captionTargetId="figure-22@6.[151,1436,179,1066]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 1. The four death adder species, genus Acanthophis, whose valid nomina we discuss herein. (A) A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 from the Mueller Ranges, ca. 110 km southwest of Halls Creek, Western Australia. (B) A. pyrrhus Boulenger, 1898 from 40 km south of Port Hedland, Western Australia. (C) A. hawkei Wells &amp; Wellington, 1985 from the Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory, Australia. (D) A. antarcticus (Shaw &amp; Nodder, 1802) from Canning Dam, near Ashendon, Western Australia. Photos by Ray Lloyd (A, B, D) and Tom Parkin (C)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5043908" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5043908/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="169">Fig. 1D</figureCitation>
).
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