Acanthophis antarcticus

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophiinae
Genus: Acanthophis
Species:

Acanthophis antarcticus (Shaw, 1802)

• Type material: not designated.
• Type locality: “Australasia”.

• Boa antarctica Shaw, 1802: unnumbered + Pl. 535 [original combination]
• Acanthophis antarctica — Gray, 1842: 71 [subsequent combination]

• Acanthophis cerastinus Daudin, 1803: 289
  • Type material: not designated.
  • Type locality: not stated.

• Acanthophis schistos Wells & Wellington, 1985: 44 [nomen nudum fide Aplin & Donnellan (1999: 277) and Ellis et al. (2021: 169)]
  • Holotype: WAM R64698.
  • Type locality: “Canning Dam, Western Australia”.

• Australia: Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

• Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. 1789–1813. The Naturalist's Miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described from nature. Nodder & Co., London. 24 vols., unnumbered pages in 287 parts. BHL Reference page. 
• Daudin, F.M. 1803. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Cinquième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 365 pp. + plates LIX–LXX. BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page. 
• Aplin, K.P. & Donnellan, S.C. 1999. An extended description of the Pilbara death adder, Acanthophis wellsi Hoser (Serpentes: Elapidae), with notes on the desert death adder, A. pyrrhus Boulenger, and identification of a possible hybrid zone. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19(3): 277–298. BHL Reference page. 
• Ellis, R.J., Kaiser, H., Maddock, S.T., Doughty, P. & Wüster, W. 2021. An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder. Zootaxa 4995(1): 161–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.9 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Acanthophis antarcticus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 4 May 2023.
• Hobson, R., Venz, M., Sanderson, C., Greenlees, M. & Dickman, C. 2018. IUCN: Acanthophis antarcticus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T42492756A42492764. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T42492756A42492764.en. Accessed on 04 May 2023.

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