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Demansia papuensis (Papuan whip snake)

Synonyms: Demansia olivacea papuensis; Demansia papuensis melaena; Diemenia papuensis; Diemenia psammophis (heterotypic)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.996 lbs (1.359 kg)
Egg Length [1]  1.102 inches (28 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.512 inches (13 mm)
Litter Size [1]  5
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ophidascaris pyrrhus <Unverified Name>[3]

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
♦ 2Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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