Suta (genus)
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Suta is a genus
of venomous elapid snake
s native to mainland Australia
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of venomous elapid snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
s native to mainland Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Species
- Rosen's Snake, Suta fasciata (Rosén,1905) — Western Australia
- Whip Hooded Snake, Suta flagellum (McCoy,1878) — New South Wales, South Australia, and Victoria
- Gould’s Hooded Snake or Black-headed Snake,Suta gouldii (Gray,1841) — Western Australia
- Monk Snake or Hooded Snake,Suta monachus (Storr,1964) — New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Western Australia
- Mallee Black-backed Snake or Black-backed Snake, Suta nigriceps (Günther,1863) — South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia
- Ord Curl Snake, Suta ordensis (Storr,1984) — Western Australia, and Northern Territory (?)
- Spotted Snake or Little Spotted Snake, Suta punctata (Boulenger,1896) — Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia
- Spectacled Hooded Snake, Suta spectabilis (Krefft,1869) — New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia
- Variable Black-naped Snake, Suta spectabilis dwyeri (Worrell,1956) — New South Wales, and Queensland
- Curl Snake (Eastern States) or Myall Snake (WA), Suta suta (Peters,1863) — New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Northern Territory, and Western Australia