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Taxonomy of the genus Cryptophis Biodiversity of the family Elapidae [terrestrial species]

Bibliography of the genus
Cryptophis (Australian Small-eyed Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Cryptophis in general

Shine, R. 1984. Reproductive biology and food habits of the Australian elapid snakes of the genus Cryptophis. Journal of Herpetology 18(1): 33-39.

Shine, R. 1986. Natural history of two monotypic snake genera of southwestern Australia, Elapognathus and Rhinoplocephalus (Elapidae). Journal of Herpetology 20(3): 436-439.

Shine, R. 1988. Food habits and reproductive biology of small Australian snakes of the genera Unechis and Suta (Elapidae). Journal of Herpetology 22(3): 307-315.

Cryptophis boschmai

Brongersma, L.D.; Knaap van Meeuwen, M.S. 1964. On a new species of Denisonia (Reptilia, Serpentes) from New Guinea. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 39: 550-554.

Hoser, R.T. 2012. Some new small-eyed snakes from Australia and New Guinea (Serpentes: Elapidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 13: 3-7.

Parker, F. 1971. Snakes of the elapid genus Suta in New Guinea. Proceedings. Papua New Guin. scient. Soc. 23: 13-17.

Worrell, E. 1963. A new elapine generic name (with skull diagrams of type species recently separated from the Australian genus Denisonia). Australian Reptile Park Records 1: 1-8.

Cryptophis nigrescens

Conole, L.E. 1985. Extension of the published range of the eastern small-eyed snake Cryptophis nigrescens in Victoria. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 102(6): 198-199.

Downes, S.; Shine, R. 2001. Why does tail loss increase a lizard's later vulnerability to snake predators? Ecology (Washington, D.C.) 82(5): 1293-1303.

Downes, S.J. 2002. Size-dependent predation by snakes: Selective foraging or differential prey vulnerability? Behavioral Ecology 13(4): 551-560.

Fearn, S. 2000. Record of an extreme leucistic Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens (Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 30(2): 55.

Head, M.L.; Keogh, J.S.; Doughty, P. 2002. Experimental evidence of an age-specific shift in chemical detection of predators in a lizard. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28(3): 541-554.

Hoser, R.T. 2012. Some new small-eyed snakes from Australia and New Guinea (Serpentes: Elapidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 13: 3-7.

Keogh, J.S.; Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2007. Spatial genetic analysis and long-term mark-recapture data demonstrate male-biased dispersal in a snake. Biology Letters 3(1): 33-35.

Lettoof, D.; Travers, S.K. 2015. Natural history notes: Cryptophis nigrescens (Eastern Small-eyed Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 46(4): 642.

Leung, A.N.; Phu, T.T.L.; Lister, D.; Poolice, J.; Caon, L.; Jones, R.; Chowdhary, N.; Warner, D.A. 2006. Diurnal skinks (Lampropholis delicata) seek shelter in the presence of scent from a nocturnal predator and prey. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 36(2): 117-121.

Lill, A. 2006. Lyrebirds and juvenile snakes: A comment on Webb and Whiting (2006). Austral Ecology 31(7): 904.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Shine, R.; Webb, J.K. 2005. Thermal regimes and diel activity patterns of four species of small elapid snakes from south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 53(1): 1-8.

Llewelyn, J.S.; Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2010. Flexible defense: context-dependent antipredator responses of two species of Australian elapid snakes. Herpetologica 66(1): 1-11.

Michael, D.; MacGregor, C.; Okada, S.; Lindenmayer, D. 2014. Predation of a Common Scaly-foot Pygopus lepidopodus by an Eastern Small-eyed Snake Cryptophis nigrescens in New South Wales. Victorian Naturalist (Blackburn) 131(5): 186-187.

Ormsby, A.I. 1952. Notes on snake hibernation in New South Wales. Proceedings K. zool. Soc. N.S.W. 1950-51: 25-27.

Scott, M.L.; Whiting, M.J.; Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2013. Chemosensory discrimination of social cues mediates space use in snakes, Cryptophis nigrescens (Elapidae). Animal Behaviour 85(6): 1493-1500.

Shoo, L.P.; Wilson, R.; Williams, Y.M.; Catterall, C.P. 2014. Putting it back: woody debris in young restoration plantings to stimulate return of reptiles. Ecological Management & Restoration 15(1): 84-87.

Turner, G.S. 2018. Natural history notes: Cryptophis nigrescens (Eastern Small-eyed Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 49(2): 339.

Turner, G.S. 2014. The timing of reproduction in the Eastern Small-eyed Snake Cryptophis nigrescens (Elapidae) near the northern limit of its range. Queensland Naturalist 52(4-6): 85-89.

Valentic, R. 1997. Aquatic behaviour in Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens (Gunther, 1862). Monitor (Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society) 8(3): 170.

Webb, G.A.; Chapman, W.S. 1984. Nocturnal road basking by gravid female Cacophis squamulosus and Cryptophis nigrescens (Serpentes, Elapidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 15(1) [1983]: 24.

Webb, J.K.; Brook, B.W.; Shine, R. 2002. What makes a species vulnerable to extinction? Comparative life-history traits of two sympatric snakes. Ecological Research 17(1): 59-67.

Webb, J.K.; Brook, B.W.; Shine, R. 2003. Does foraging mode influence life history traits? A comparative study of growth, maturation and survival of two species of sympatric snakes from south-eastern Australia. Austral Ecology 28(6): 601-610.

Webb, J.K.; Du, W.G.; Pike, D.A.; Shine, R. 2009. Chemical cues from both dangerous and nondangerous snakes elicit antipredator behaviours from a nocturnal lizard. Animal Behaviour 77(6): 1471-1478.

Webb, J.K.; Pike, D.A.; Shine, R. 2010. Olfactory recognition of predators by nocturnal lizards: safety outweighs thermal benefits. Behavioral Ecology 21(1): 72-77.

Webb, J.K.; Pringle, R.M.; Shine, R. 2004. How do nocturnal snakes select diurnal retreat sites? Copeia 2004(4): 919-925.

Webb, J.K.; Pringle, R.M.; Shine, R. 2009. Intraguild predation, thermoregulation, and microhabitat selection by snakes. Behavioral Ecology 20(2): 271-277.

Webb, J.K.; Scott, M.L.; Whiting, M.J.; Shine, R. 2015. Territoriality in a snake. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69(10): 1657-1661.

Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2008. Differential effects of an intense wildfire on survival of sympatric snakes. Journal of Wildlife Management 72(6): 1394-1398.

Webb, J.K.; Whiting, M.J. 2006. Does rock disturbance by superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) influence habitat selection by juvenile snakes? Austral Ecology 31(1): 58-67.

Webb, J.K.; Whiting, M.J. 2006. Habitat disturbance, not predation, is all that is required to influence habitat choice in juvenile snakes: a rejoinder to Lill. Austral Ecology 31(7): 905-906.

Cryptophis nigrostriatus

Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A. 2011. Envenomation by the poorly known elapid black-striped snake, Cryptophis nigrostriatus. Queensland Naturalist 49(1-3): 21-22.

Hoser, R.T. 2012. Some new small-eyed snakes from Australia and New Guinea (Serpentes: Elapidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 13: 3-7.

Krefft, G. 1864. Description of three new species of Australian snakes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 180-182.

Kuch, U. 2004. Record of the Black-striped Snake, Rhinoplocephalus nigrostriatus (Krefft, 1864), from Papua, Indonesia. Herpetozoa 17(3-4): 193-194.

Parker, F. 1971. Snakes of the elapid genus Suta in New Guinea. Proceedings. Papua New Guin. scient. Soc. 23: 13-17.

Cryptophis pallidiceps

Smith, L.A. 1978. The elapid snakes Denisonia pallidiceps and Denisonia suta in the Kimberleys of Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 14(3): 75.

Worrell, E. 1963. A new elapine generic name (with skull diagrams of type species recently separated from the Australian genus Denisonia). Australian Reptile Park Records 1: 1-8.