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    Species Accepted

    Acanthophis laevis Macleay, 1877

    New Guinea Death Adder

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      8 results
      Glatskællet Dødsorm Danish
      Neuguinea-Todesotter German
      New Guinea Death Adder English
      Smooth-scaled Death Adder English
      Urwald-Todesotter German
      Vipera della morte a scaglie lisce Italian
      pápua halálkígyó Hungarian
      巴布亞棘蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
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      PAUL, LAURENCE & ROBERT W. MENDYK. (2021). Glow and Behold: Biofluorescence and New Insights on the Tails of Pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae) and Other Snakes. Herpetological Review 52 (2): 221–237.
      Wüster, Wolfgang; Alex J. Dumbrell; Chris Hay; Catharine E. Pook; David J. Williams and Bryan Grieg Fry. (2004). Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33 (3): 1-14.
      Macleay, W. (1877). The ophidians of the Chevert Expedition. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 2: 33-41 (given as 1878 on Title Page but Published in 1877).
      Hoser, R. (2002). Death adders (genus Acanthophis): an updated overview, including description of 3 new island species and 2 new Australian suspecies. Crocodilian, 4 (1): 5-7, 9-11, 14, 16-22, 24-30.
      Clegg, Jonathan R. and Merlijn Jocque. (2015). The Collection of Snakes Made by Benoît Mys and Jan Swerts in Northern Papua New Guinea in 1982–85. Journal of Herpetology 50 (3): 476-485 [2016].
      Wüster, W.; Philippe Golay; David A. Warrell. (1999). Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No. 3. Toxicon 37: 1123-1129.
      Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. (2013). Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23.
      KUCH, U., McGUIRE, J. A., & YUWONO, F. B. (2006). Death adders (Acanthophis laevis complex) from the island of Ambonì. Herpetozoa 19 (1/2): 81-82.
      O’Shea, M. (2018). The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London,.

      Citation

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