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Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


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








Genus
Echiopsis

Bardick

Bardick

Hugormegiftsnog

1843 Echiopsis Fitzinger (type species: Naja curta Schlegel 1837)
1859 Alecto Jan [preoccupied by Alecto Leach 1851 (Echinodermata), Alecto Lamouroux 1821 (Bryozoa), Alecto Wagler 1830 (Serpentes), Alecto Lesson 1831 (Aves), and Alecto Agassiz 1847 (Coleoptera)] (type species: Naja curta Schlegel 1837)
1896 Brachyaspis Boulenger (type species: Naja curta Schlegel 1837; syn. Cogger 1992)
Contents: 1 species, which is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Paroplocephalus atriceps was previously included in this genus (e.g., Cogger, Cameron & Cogger 1983).
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Echiopsis.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Echiopsis curta

Bardick

Bardick

Hugormegiftsnog

1837 Naja curta Schlegel
Hoplocephalus curtus Günther 1858
Brachyaspis curta Boulenger 1896
Notechis curtus Storr 1982
Echiopsis curta Wells & Wellington 1985
1862 Hoplocephalus temporalis Günther (Golay & al. 1993)
Echiopsis temporalis Wells & Wellington 1985

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia).