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Elapognathus coronatus (Crowned Snake)

Synonyms: Drysdalia coronata; Elaps coronatus; Elaps melanocephalus (heterotypic); Trimeresurus olivaceus

Attributes

Venomous [1]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge IV 26618 Alabama, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Ctenotus labillardieri (Labillardier's skink)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Suta gouldii (Gould's Hooded Snake, Black-headed Snake)1
Suta nigriceps (Mallee Black-backed Snake)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hastospiculum drysdaliae <Unverified Name>[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Comprehensive Database Of snake toxins, P. Prabakaran
♦ 2Ecological notes on Crowned Snakes Elapognathus coronatus from the Archipelago of the Recherche in southwestern Australia, D. Pearson, R. Shine, X. Bonnet, A. Williams, B. Jennings, O. Lourdais, Australian Zoologist volume 31 (4) 610-617 (2001)
♦ 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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