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

Bibliography of the genus
Cacophis (Australian Dwarf Crowned 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.


Cacophis in general

Hubbs, C.L. 1932. The use of the generic name Ophis for an eel, a snake and a mollusc. Copeia 1932: 26-27.

Scanlon, J.D. 2003. The Australian elapid genus Cacophis: morphology and phylogeny of rainforest crowned snakes. Herpetological Journal 13(1): 1-20.

Shine, R. 1980. Comparative ecology of three Australian snake species of the genus Cacophis (Serpentes: Elapidae). Copeia 1980(4): 831-838.

Cacophis churchilli

Freeman, A. 2008. Natural history notes: Cacophis churchilli (Northern Crowned Snake). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 39(4): 467.

Cacophis harriettae

Furbank, M.; Nelson, S. 1994. Reproduction notes and the first record of albinism in the white crowned snake Cacophis harriettae (Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 24(2): 31-32.

Peck, S. 2002. Pygopod lizard predation by a white-crowned snake, Cacophis harriettae. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 32(1): 11-12.

Cacophis krefftii

Fitzgerald, M. 1994. Notes on the ecology of the dwarf crowned snake (Cacophis kreffti) in northeastern NSW. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 24(2): 11-13.

Wells, R. 1980. Notes on Kreffts dwarf snake (Cacophis krefftii). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 11(2): 18-19.

Cacophis squamulosus

Greenlees, M.J.; Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2005. Led by the blind: bandy-bandy snakes Vermicella annulata (Elapidae) follow Blindsnake chemical trails. Copeia 2005(1): 184-187.

Hardy, C.J.; Hardy, C.M.; Hardy, J.P. 1979. Reptiles of Dobroyd Head Reserve. Koolewong 8(4): 13-18.

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.

Meyer, E.A. 2009. Arboreal activity in the golden-crowned snake Cacophis squamulosus. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 39(2): 124.

Rhind, D.; Steer, D. 2016. Natural history notes: Cacophis squamulosus (Golden-crowned Snake). Diet / mortality. Herpetological Review 47(2): 308-309.

Tasoulis, T. 1984. Oviparity in the elapid Cacophis squamulosus. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 15(2): 49.

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.