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Furina diadema (Red-naped Snake)

Synonyms: Cacophis blackmanii; Calamaria diadema; Denisonia bancrofti; Rabdion occipitale

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-naped snake (Furina diadema) is a small venomous reptile from the family Elapidae. The snakes are found in four Australian states and are listed as 'Threatened' in Victoria'. They are nocturnal and feed on small skinks. The young eastern brown snake is similar in appearance.
View Wikipedia Record: Furina diadema

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Girraween National Park II 28978 Queensland, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Lampropholis delicata (Rainbow Skink)[2]
Lampropholis guichenoti (Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink, Garden Skink)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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 Australian Elapid Snakes of The Genera Furina and Glyphodon, Richard Shine, 1981 JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 15(2):219-224
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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