Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae > Hoplocephalus > Hoplocephalus stephensii

Hoplocephalus stephensii (Stephen's banded snake; Stephens's Banded Snake)

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  6
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia

Prey / Diet

Acrobates pygmaeus (Feather-tailed Glider)[3]
Antechinus stuartii (Brown Antechinus)[3]
Cercartetus nanus (Eastern Pygmy Possum)[3]
Melomys cervinipes (fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat)[3]
Rattus fuscipes (Bush rat)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
♦ 2Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
♦ 3Life history attributes of the threatened Australian snake (Stephen's banded snake Hoplocephalus stephensii, Elapidae), Mark Fitzgerald, Richard Shine, Francis Lemckert, Biological Conservation 119 (2004) 121–128
♦ 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
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