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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. www.repfocus.dk (Compilation date: 14th April, 2023).

Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Snakes (Serpentes)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Elapidae [part 1: terrestrial species] (Cobras, Mambas, etc.) Genus Acanthophis (Death Adders)   * Acanthophis ceramensis Seram Death Adder Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 [as A. antarcticus] Haas 1950 [as A. antarcticus] Iskandar & Colijn 2001 [as A. praelongus] Jong 1926 [as A. antarcticus] Kuch, McGuire & Yuwono 2006 [as A. laevis complex] Lang 2013 [as A. spp.] Rooij 1917 [as A. antarcticus] Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014   Acanthophis rugosus Rough-scaled Death Adder Loveridge 1948 Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014 Wuster, Dumbrell, Hay, Pook, Williams & Fry 2005 Genus Aspidomorphus (Papuan Crowned Snakes)   Aspidomorphus muelleri Mount Lamantsiro Crowned Snake Brongersma 1934 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Jong 1926 Lang 2013 McDowell 1967 O'Shea 1996 Richards, Iskandar & Allison 2000 Richards, Iskandar & Tjaturadi 2002 Rooij 1917 Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014   Aspidomorphus schlegelii Misool Crowned Snake Brongersma 1934 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 McDowell 1967 O'Shea 1996 Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014 Genus Bungarus (Kraits)   Bungarus candidus Malayan Krait Bosch 1985 Brongersma in Dammerman 1929 David & Vogel 1996 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Hodges 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Kopstein 1930 Kuch & Tillack 2004 Kurniawan, Fathoni, Fatchiyah, Aulani, Septiadi & Smith 2021 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Lang 2017 McKay 2006 Mertens 1929 Mertens 1936 Mertens 1957 Mertens 1959 Milto & Lukin 2020 Rooij 1917 Somaweera 2017 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Tillack & Grossmann 1998 [as javanicus] Vogel 2006 Whitten & McCarthy 1993   Bungarus fasciatus Banded Krait Brongersma in Dammerman 1929 Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Hodges 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Kopstein 1930 Kurniawan, Fathoni, Fatchiyah, Aulani, Septiadi & Smith 2021 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Lang 2017 Mertens 1929 Mertens 1936 Rooij 1917 Somaweera 2017 Somaweera, Lilley, Putra, Ganz, Govendan, McKay & Milenkaya 2018 Stuebing 1991 Stuebing, Inger & Lardner 2014 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Vogel 2006 Whitten & McCarthy 1993   Bungarus flaviceps Red-headed Krait Brongersma 1933 Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Iskandar 2004 Kuch 2002 Rooij 1917 Stuebing 1991 Stuebing, Inger & Lardner 2014 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Westermann 1942 [as Maticora intermedia] Genus Calliophis (South Asian Coral Snakes)   Calliophis bivirgatus Red-bellied Coral Snake Brongersma in Dammerman 1929 Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 Dring, McCarthy & Whitten 1990 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Hodges 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Iskandar 2004 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Ladiges 1939 Lang 2017 Milto & Bezman-Moseyko 2021 Rooij 1917 Roux 1925 Smith 1926 Stuebing 1991 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Vogel 2006 Whitten & McCarthy 1993   Calliophis gracilis Graceful Coral Snake David & Vogel 1996 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Rooij 1917 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Vogel 2006   Calliophis intestinalis Malayan Striped Coral Snake Brongersma in Dammerman 1929 Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 Dring, McCarthy & Whitten 1990 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Hodges 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Iskandar 2004 Kopstein 1930 Kurniawan, Fathoni, Fatchiyah, Aulani, Septiadi & Smith 2021 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Lang 2017 Leviton 1963 McKay & Lilley 2012 Mertens 1929 Mertens 1930 Milto & Bezman-Moseyko 2021 Milto & Lukin 2020 Rooij 1917 Somaweera 2017 Stuebing 1991 Stuebing, Inger & Lardner 2014 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Vogel 2006 Westermann 1942 Whitten & McCarthy 1993   Calliophis nigrotaeniatus Black-striped Coral Snake Fukuyama, Vogel, Matsui, Eto, Munir, Hossman, Hamidy & Nishikawa 2020 Haas 1950 [as Maticora intestinalis sumatranus] Genus Demansia (Sahul Whip Snakes)   Demansia vestigiata Lesser Black Whip Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 O'Shea 1996 Genus Furina (Australian Naped Snakes)   Furina tristis Grey-naped Snake Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Rooij 1917 Genus Micropechis (Papuan Small-eyed Snake)   Micropechis ikaheka Papuan Small-eyed Snake Boulenger 1914 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Mulyadi 2007 O'Shea 1996 O'Shea, Parker & Kaiser 2015 Richards, Iskandar, Tjaturadi & Krishar 2002 Rooij 1917 Genus Naja (Typical Cobras)   * Naja sputatrix Southern Indonesian Spitting Cobra Asad, McKay & Putra 2012 Auffenberg 1980 Bosch 1985 Darevsky 1964 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Hodges 1993 How & Kitchener 1997 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Kopstein 1930 Kurniawan, Fathoni, Fatchiyah, Aulani, Septiadi & Smith 2021 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Lang 2011 Lang 2017 McKay 2006 Mertens 1930 Mertens 1936 Mertens 1957 Milto & Lukin 2020 Rooij 1917 [as N. tripudians] Somaweera 2017 Vogel 2006 Westermann 1942 Whitten & McCarthy 1993 Wuster & Thorpe 1990 Zug & Kaiser 2014   Naja sumatrana Sunda Spitting Cobra Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 Gaulke, Abel, Erdelen & Fritz 1998 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Iskandar 2004 Milto & Bezman-Moseyko 2021 Rooij 1917 [as N. tripudians] Stuebing 1991 Stuebing, Inger & Lardner 2014 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Westermann 1942 [as N. naja, var. miolepis] Wuster & Thorpe 1990 Genus Ophiophagus (King Cobra)   Ophiophagus hannah King Cobra Bosch 1985 Brongersma 1933 Brongersma in Dammerman 1929 Das 2006 David & Vogel 1996 David, Pauwels, Lays & Lenglet 2006 Gaulke, Abel, Erdelen & Fritz 1998 Gillespie, Howard, Lockie, Scroggie & Boeadi 2005 Hodges 1993 Haas 1950 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Iskandar & Tjan 1996 Iskandar 2004 Koch 2012 Kurniawan, Fathoni, Fatchiyah, Aulani, Septiadi & Smith 2021 Kusrini, Hamidy, Prasetyo, Nugraha, Andriani, Fadhila, Hartanto & Afrianto 2021 Lang & Vogel 2005 Lang 2017 Leong, Grismer & Mumpuni 2003 McKay 2006 Mertens 1930 Mertens 1957 Milto & Lukin 2020 Rooij 1917 [as bungarus] Rooij 1922 Somaweera 2017 Stuebing 1991 Stuebing, Inger & Lardner 2014 Teynie, David & Ohler 2010 Westermann 1942 Whitten & McCarthy 1993 Genus Oxyuranus (Taipans)   Oxyuranus scutellatus Eastern Taipan Iskandar & Colijn 2001 O'Shea 1996 Genus Pseudechis (Australian Black Snakes and King Brown Snakes)   Pseudechis papuanus Papuan Black Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Maddock, Childerstone, Fry, Williams, Barlow & Wuster 2017   * Pseudechis rossignolii Papuan Brown Snake Hoser 2000 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 [as P. australis] Maddock, Childerstone, Fry, Williams, Barlow & Wuster 2017 O'Shea 1996 [as P. australis] Genus Pseudonaja (Australian Brown Snakes)   Pseudonaja textilis Eastern Brown Snake Kuch & Yuwono 2002 [as "cf. textilis"] O'Shea, Doria, Petri & Kaiser 2016 Williams, O'Shea, Daguerre, Pook, Wuster, Hayden, McVay, Paiva, Matainaho, Winkel & Austin 2008 Genus Rhinoplocephalus (Australian Small-eyed Snakes)   Rhinoplocephalus boschmai Carpentaria Small-eyed Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 O'Shea 1996   Rhinoplocephalus nigrostriatus Australian Black-striped Snake Kuch 2004 Genus Toxicocalamus (Papuan Worm-eating Snakes)   Toxicocalamus ernstmayri Star Mountains Worm-eating Snake O'Shea, Blum & Kaiser 2020   * Toxicocalamus grandis Setekwa River Worm-eating Snake Boulenger 1914 Iskandar & Colijn 2001 Kraus 2009 McDowell 1969 O'Shea 1996 O'Shea, Blum & Kaiser 2020 O'Shea, Parker & Kaiser 2015   Toxicocalamus loennbergii Farfak Worm-eating Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 [as T. loriae] Kraus, Kaiser & O'Shea 2022 McDowell 1969 [as T. loriae] O'Shea 1996 [as T. loriae] O'Shea, Parker & Kaiser 2015 [as T. loriae]   Toxicocalamus preussi Sepik Worm-eating Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 McDowell 1969 O'Shea 1996 O'Shea, Parker & Kaiser 2015   Toxicocalamus stanleyanus Mount Stanley Worm-eating Snake Iskandar & Colijn 2001 McDowell 1969 O'Shea 1996 O'Shea, Parker & Kaiser 2015 Richards, Iskandar & Allison 2000