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Demansia vestigiata (Black whip snake)

Synonyms: Demansia atra; Demansia superba; Diemenia atra; Hoplocephalus vestigiatus

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  1.299 inches (33 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.551 inches (14 mm)
Litter Size [2]  8
Venomous [3]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Amphibolurus muricatus (Jacky Lashtail, Jacky Lizard)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Aquila audax (Wedge-tailed Eagle)1
Demansia psammophis (Yellow-faced Whipsnake, Yellow-Faced Whip Snake)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ophidascaris pyrrhus <Unverified Name>[4]
Raillietiella orientalis[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Ecology of Eastern Australian Whipsnakes of the Genus Demansia, Richard Shine, Journal of Herpetology 14(4):381-389 (1980)
♦ 3Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0