Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeuticsCalmette, A. (Albert)
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Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics
Calmette, A. (Albert)
Antitoxins; Poisonous snakes; Toxins; Venom
Colour brown, lips yellow; belly salmon-red to dark olive-grey; end of
tail salmon-red.
Total length, 440 millimetres; tail 80.
_Habitat_: Southern Australia and Tasmania.
(4) _D. muelleri._--Scales in 17 rows; 118 ventrals; 38 subcaudals.
Colour grey-brown; lips and chin with yellow spots; belly grey.
Total length, 292 millimetres; tail 52.
_Habitat_: Queensland.
(5) _D. frenata._--Scales in 19 rows; 167 ventrals; 35 subcaudals.
Colour olive-brown; upper lip yellow; belly white.
Total length, 390 millimetres; tail 54.
_Habitat_: Lake Elphinstone, Queensland.
(6) _D. ramsayi_ (fig. 54).--Scales in 15 rows; 164 ventrals; 51
subcaudals.
[Illustration: FIG. 54.--_Denisonia ramsayi._]
Colour dark olive-green above, yellow beneath; subcaudals nearly black.
Total length, 265 millimetres; tail 50.
_Habitat_: New South Wales.
(7) D. signata (fig. 55).--Scales in 17 rows; 153-170 ventrals; 41-56
subcaudals.
[Illustration: FIG. 55.--_Denisonia signata._]
Colour dark olive or black, head brown; belly dark grey or black.
Total length, 640 millimetres; tail 120.
_Habitat_: Queensland, New South Wales.
(8) _D. daemelii._--Scales in 17 rows; 147-168 ventrals; 33-45
subcaudals.
Colour olive, head darker; belly yellowish-white.
Total length, 380 millimetres; tail 60.
_Habitat_: Queensland.
(9) _D. suta._--Scales in 19 rows; 157-164 ventrals; 25-30 subcaudals.
Colour pale olive-brown, head dark brown, nape black; upper lip and
belly yellow.
Total length, 200 millimetres; tail 23.
_Habitat_: Southern Australia.
(10) _D. frontalis._--Scales in 19 rows; 154 ventrals; 30 subcaudals.
Colour light brown, with a vertebral black line; belly pearly-white,
with a median bronze-coloured band.
Total length, 400 millimetres; tail 50.
_Habitat_: New South Wales.
(11) _D. flagellum._--Scales in 17 rows; 132-138 ventrals; 25-27
subcaudals.
Colour pale brown; vertex, occiput, and nape black; upper lip and belly
white.
Total length, 380 millimetres; tail 40.
_Habitat_: Victoria.
(12) _D. maculata._ (fig. 56).--Scales in 17 rows; 121-136 ventrals;
20-30 subcaudals.
[Illustration: FIG. 56.--_Denisonia maculata._]
Colour dark grey-brown, or brown; a large dark olive-green or brown
blotch on the head, with two or three unequal light grey spots; belly
white.
Total length, 400 millimetres; tail 55.
_Habitat_: Queensland.
(13) _D. punctata._--Scales in 15 rows; 160 ventrals; 25 subcaudals.
Colour pale brown; head and nape orange; upper lip and belly yellow.
Total length, 350 millimetres; tail 36.
_Habitat_: North-Western Australia.
(14) _D. gouldii_ (fig. 57).--Scales in 15 rows; 140-170 ventrals;
22-23 subcaudals.
[Illustration: FIG. 57.--_Denisonia gouldii._]
Colour brownish-yellow; nape black; head covered with a broad
greenish-blue blotch, extending from the nose to the neck; upper lip
and belly yellow.
Total length, 435 millimetres; tail 50.
_Habitat_: Western and Southern Australia.
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