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Echiopsis curta (Bardick)

Synonyms: Echiopsis curta martinekae; Hoplocephalus temporalis; Naja curta

Wikipedia Abstract

Echiopsis curta is a species of snake in the Elapidae family.It is endemic to Australia.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  82 grams
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  6 months 12 days
Litter Size [1]  7
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coorong National Park II 121235 South Australia, Australia
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Carlia peronii (Lowlands Earless Skink)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ophidascaris pyrrhus <Unverified Name>[4]

Range Map

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
2Comprehensive Database Of snake toxins, P. Prabakaran
3Ecology of the Australian Elapid Snake Echiopsis curta, RICHARD SHINE, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 388-393, 1982
4Gibson, 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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