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    Species Accepted

    Acanthophis wellsi Hoser, 1998

    Pilbara Death Adder
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acanthophis

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Pilbara Death Adder English
      Pilbara-dødsorm Danish
      Vipera della morte del Pilbara Italian
      Vipera della morte di Wells Italian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      MADDOCK, SIMON T.; RYAN J. ELLIS, PAUL DOUGHTY, LAWRENCE A. SMITH & WOLFGANG WÜSTER. (2015). A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007 (3): 301–326.
      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. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 19: 277-298.
      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.
      Eipper T, & Eipper S. (2024). SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 Pp.
      Cogger, H. G. (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, Xxx + 1033 Pp.
      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.
      Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A. R., & Weinstein, S. A. (2017). Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 Pp.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Shea, G. M. (2012). (Book review) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by B. Beolens et al. Copeia 2012 (3): 578-582.
      Hoser, R. (1998). Death Adders (Genus Acanthophis): An overview, including descriptions of five new species and one subspecies. Monitor 9 (2): 20-41.

      Citation

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