Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae > Simoselaps > Simoselaps bertholdi

Simoselaps bertholdi (Southern Desert Banded Snake, Desert Banded Snake)

Synonyms: Elaps bertholdi; Elaps mattozoi; Furina robusta; Rhynchoelaps bertholdi

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  4
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Lerista elegans (Elegant Slider)[3]
Menetia greyii (Common Dwarf Skink)[3]

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
♦ 2Comprehensive Database Of snake toxins, P. Prabakaran
♦ 3Reproduction and diet in four species of burrowing snakes (Simoselaps spp.) from southwestern Western Australia, N. R. Strahan, R. A. How and J. Dell, Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 57-63 (1998).
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