Short-nosed snake

Short-nosed snake
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Genus:	Elapognathus
Species:	E. minor
Binomial name
Elapognathus minor (Günther, 1863)
Distribution of the short-nosed snake
Synonyms[2]
Hoplocephalus minor Günther, 1863 Elapognathus minor — Boulenger, 1896 Notechis minor — Storr, 1982 Elapognathus minor — Cogger, 1983

The short-nosed snake (Elapognathus minor) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History).Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Elapognathus minor, new combination, pp. 356–357 + Plate XIX, figure 2).
• Günther A. 1863. "Third Account of new Species of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Third Series 12: 348–365. (Hoplocephalus minor, new species, pp. 362–363).

External links[]

• Keogh JS, Scott IA, Scanlon JD. 2000. "Molecular phylogeny of viviparous Australian elapid snakes: affinities of Echiopsis atriceps (Storr, 1980) and Drysdalia coronata (Schlegel, 1837), with description of a new genus". J. Zool. 252: 317-326.

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