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FIGURE 1 in An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder

  • 1. Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool WA 6016, Australia & Biologic Environmental Survey, 24-26 Wickham St, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia.
  • 2. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany; and Department of Biology, Victor Valley College, 18422 Bear Valley Road, Victorville, California 92395, USA
  • 3. Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, United Kingdom & Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom & Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Mahé, Seychelles
  • 4. Collections & Research, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool WA 6016, Australia
  • 5. Molecular Biology and Evolution at Bangor, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2UW, United Kingdom Corresponding author. w.wuster@bangor.ac.uk; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4890-4311

Description

FIGURE 1. The four death adder species, genus Acanthophis, whose valid nomina we discuss herein. (A) A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 from the Mueller Ranges, ca. 110 km southwest of Halls Creek, Western Australia. (B) A. pyrrhus Boulenger, 1898 from 40 km south of Port Hedland, Western Australia. (C) A. hawkei Wells & Wellington, 1985 from the Barkly Tableland, Northern Territory, Australia. (D) A. antarcticus (Shaw & Nodder, 1802) from Canning Dam, near Ashendon, Western Australia. Photos by Ray Lloyd (A, B, D) and Tom Parkin (C).

Notes

Published as part of Ellis, Ryan J., Kaiser, Hinrich, Maddock, Simon T., Doughty, Paul & Wüster, Wolfgang, 2021, An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder, pp. 161-172 in Zootaxa 4995 (1) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/5043906

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