THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA - ELAPIDS

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION
Covering Australian Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles

PLEASE SHARE THIS PAGE

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TERRESTRIAL ELAPID SNAKES - SPECIES LISTING

Distribution Key

SERPENTES(SNAKES)
Family Elapidae (Elapid Snakes)

The Elapid family are front fanged snakes and this family includes the Australian dangerous land snakes as well as the Cobras found overseas.
There are also many small species and many of those have weak venoms and are not dangerous to humans.

Sea Snakes are often been placed in their own family, however now many experts consider them to be in the Elapid family
CLICK HERE FOR SEA SNAKES

* indicates a new or recently Updated page.

COMMON NAME (INTERNAL LINK)	SCIENTIFIC NAME (EXTERNAL LINK)	DISTRIBUTION
Common Death Adder	Acanthophis antarcticus	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, WA
Desert Death Adder	Acanthophis pyrrhus	NT, Qld, SA, WA
Pigmy Copperhead	Austrelaps labialis	SA
Lowlands Copperhead	Austrelaps superbus	NSW, SA, Tas, Vic
Australian Coral Snake	Brachyurophis (was Simoselaps) australis	NSW, Qld, SA, Vic
Inland Narrow-banded Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis fasciolatus fasciolatus	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
Half-girdled Snake or Southern Shovel-nosed Snake	Brachyurophis semifasciatus (was Simoselaps semifasciata)	NT, SA, WA
Yellow-Faced Whipsnake	Demansia psammophis	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic, (Excluding snakes previously known as Demansia psammophis reticulata)
Copper-tailed or Desert Whipsnake	Demansia cyanochasma previously known as Demansia reticulata cupreiceps	SA, NT, WA, Qld
*Crack-dwelling Whipsnake	Demansia rimicola	NT, WA, Qld NSW, SA
* De Vis Banded Snake	Denisonia devisi	NSW, Qld, Vic, SA
White-Lipped Snake	Drysdalia coronoides	NSW, ACT, SA, Tas, Vic
Masters' Snake	Drysdalia mastersii	SA, Vic, WA
Bardick	Echiopsis curta	NSW, SA, Vic, WA
Red-naped Snake	Furina diadema	NSW, Qld, SA, Vic
Orange-naped Snake	Furina ornata	NT, Qld, SA, WA
Western Black-naped Snake	Neelaps bimaculatus (was Simoselaps bimaculata)	SA, WA
Krefft's Black Tiger Snake (Status uncertain)	Now called Notechis scutatus ater (was Notechis ater ater) (Status uncertain)	SA
Peninsula Black Tiger Snake (Status uncertain)	Now called Notechis scutatus niger (was Notechis ater niger) (Status uncertain)	SA
Eastern or Mainland Tiger Snake	Now called Notechis scutatus scutatus	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic, Tas
Inland Taipan or Fierce Snake	Oxyuranus microlepidotus	NSW, Qld, SA, Vic(?) NT?
Western Desert or Central Ranges Taipan	Oxyuranus temporalis	WA, NT (no records From SA but likely to occur)
Nullarbor Spectacled Hooded Snake	(invalid was Parasuta spectabilis nullarbor) now Suta gouldii	(Nullarbor Plain) SA, WA
King Brown or Mulga Snake	Pseudechis australis	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
Red-bellied Black Snake	Pseudechis porphyriacus	NSW, ACT, Qld, SA, Vic
Common Dugite	Pseudonaja affinis affinis	WA, SA
Strap Snouted Brown Snake	Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha	SA, NSW, Qld, NT, Vic
Speckled Brown Snake	Pseudonaja guttata	NT, Qld, SA
Peninsula Brown Snake	Pseudonaja inframacula	SA
*Western Brown Snake	Pseudonaja mengdeni	SA, WA, NT, Qld, NSW, Vic?
Ringed Brown Snake	Pseudonaja modesta	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA
Common or Eastern Brown Snake	Pseudonaja textilis	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA?
Nullarbor Hooded Snake (INVALID - SEE Gould's Hooded Snake)	Rhinoplocephalus nullarbor (INVALID - SEE Suta gouldii)	SA, WA
Northern Desert Banded Snake	Simoselaps anomalus	NT, SA, WA
Jan's Desert Banded Snake	Simoselaps bertholdi	NT, SA, WA
*Dwyer's Snake (Status uncertain)	Suta (was Parasuta) dwyeri	NSW, ACT, Qld, Vic, NSW, SA
Little Whip Snake	Suta (was Parasuta) flagellum	NSW, SA, Vic , ACT?
*Gould's Hooded Snake	Suta (was Parasuta) gouldii (Now also includes snakes previously known as Parasuta spectabilis nullarbor and Parasuta spectabilis bushi)	WA, SA
*Monk Snake or Hooded Snake	Suta (was Parasuta) monachus See also *Suta gaikhorstorum*	NT, SA, WA
*Mitchell's Short-tailed Snake or Mallee Black-backed Snake (Status uncertain)	Suta (was Parasuta) nigriceps	WA, SA?
*Common Spectacled Hooded Snake	Suta spectabilis (was Parasuta spectabilis spectabilis)	NSW, Qld, SA, Vic
Myall or Curl Snake	Suta (was Denisonia) suta	NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA
Bandy Bandy or Eastern Bandy Bandy	Vermicella annulata	NSW, ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic

Sea Snakes are now considered to be in the Elapid family - click on the link below for

A Listing of South Australian Sea Snakes

DISTRIBUTION KEY
Click on the abbreviation below to see a map of the area

CI = Christmas Island	CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island	NSW = New South Wales
NT = Northern Territory	Qld = Queensland	SA = South Australia
Tas = Tasmania	Vic = Victoria	WA = Western Australia
NI = Norfolk Island	LHI = Lord Howe Island	ACT = Australian Capital Territory (Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)