Aspidomorphus

Aspidomorphus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophiinae
Genus:	Aspidomorphus Fitzinger, 1843

Millers crown snake

Aspidomorphus is a genus of venomous elapid snakes endemic to New Guinea and neighbouring islands. They are commonly called collared adders or crown snakes. These are small snakes with rounded snouts and small eyes. Very little is known about these nocturnal burrowing species.

Species

Species	Authority	Subsp.	Common name	Geographic range
A. lineaticollis	(F. Werner, 1903)	None	Striped crown snake	Papua New Guinea (Trobriand I, Louisiade Archipelago, d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago)
A. muelleri	(Schlegel, 1837)	4	Müller's [1] crown snake	Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago)
A. schlegelii	(Günther, 1872)	None	Schlegel's [1] crown snake	Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea

References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Aspidomorphus muelleri, p. 184; A. schlegelii, p. 235).

Further reading

• McDowell SB (1967). "Aspidomorphus, a Genus of New Guinea Snakes of the Family Elapidae, With Notes on Related Genera". Journal of Zoology (London) 151: 497–543. Abstract.

External links

• Genus Aspidomorphus at The Reptile Database
• "Aspidomorphus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.