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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Elapidae [terrestrial species]
Bibliography of the genus Hemiaspis
Biodiversity of the family Elapidae [terrestrial species]








Genus
Hemiaspis

Australian Swamp Snakes

Sumpfgiftnattern

Sumpgiftsnoge

1861 Hemiaspis Fitzinger (type species: Alecto signata Jan 1859)
1961 Drepanodontis Worrell (type species: Hoplocephalus damelii Günther 1876; syn. Cogger 1992)
Contents: 2 species, both of which are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland [incl. Fraser Island]).

Hemiaspis damelii

Grey Swamp Snake, Grey Snake, (Dämel's Snake)

Graue Sumpfgiftnatter

Grå Sumpgiftsnog

1876 Hoplocephalus damelii Günther
Denisonia daemelii [sic] Boulenger 1986
Drepanodontis daemelii [sic] Worrell 1961
Hemiaspis damaelii [sic] Schwaner, Miller & Tyler 1985
1892 Hoplocephalus suboccipitalis Ogilby (Golay & al. 1993)

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland).


Hemiaspis signata

Black-bellied Swamp Snake, Black-bellied Marsh Snake

Schwarzbauch-Sumpfgiftnatter

Sortbuget Sumpgiftsnog

1859 Alecto signata Jan
Hoplocephalus signatus Vis 1884
Denisonia signata Boulenger 1896
Austrelaps signata Worrell 1963
Hemiaspis signata Cogger 1979
1901 Denisonia vagrans Garman (Golay & al. 1993)
Hemiaspis vagrans Wells & Wellington 1984

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland [incl. Fraser Island]).