Brachyurophis
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Genus: | Brachyurophis Gunther, 1863
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Brachyurophis is a genus of elapid snakes known as shovel-nosed snakes. So named because of their shovel-nosed snout which used to burrow. The genus has eight recognized species, which are all found in Australia.
Species
- North-western Shovel-nosed Snake, Brachyurophis approximans (Glauert L., 1854)
- Coral Snake, Brachyurophis australis (Krefft, 1864)
- Brachyurophis Campbelli Brachyurophis campbelli (Kinghorn, 1929)
- Narrow Banded Snake Brachyurophis fasciolatus (Gunther, 1872)
- Unbanded Shovel-nosed Snake Brachyurophis incinctus (Stor, 1968)
- Arnhem Shovel-nosed Snake Brachyurophis morrisi (Horner, 1998)
- Northern Shovel-nosed Snake Brachyurophis roperi (Kinghorn, 1931)
- Southern Shovel-nosed Snake Brachyurophis semifasciata (Gunther, 1863)-
Geographic distribution
- B. approximans - Western Australia North West Coastal and Western Plateau.
- B. australis - New South Wales,Queensland,South Australia and Victoria.
- B. campbelli - Western Australia,Queensland and Northern Territory North Coast.
- B. fasciolatus - New South Wales,Queensland,Western Australia,South Australia and Northern Territory.
- B. incinctus - Northern Territory and Queensland.
- B. morrisi - Northern Territory North Coast.
- B. roperi - Northern Territory and Western Australia North Coast.
- B. semifasciata - Western Australia,South Australia,Queensland and Northern Territory.