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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


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








Genus
Hemiaspis

Australian Swamp Snakes

Sumpfgiftnattern

Sumpgiftsnoge

1861 Hemiaspis Fitzinger (type species: Alecto signata Jan 1859)
1961 Drepanodontis Worrell (type species: Hoplocephalus damelii Günther 1876; syn. Cogger 1992)
Contents: 2 species, both of which are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland [incl. Fraser Island]).

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


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

Hemiaspis damelii

Grey Swamp Snake, Grey Snake, (Dämel's Snake)

Graue Sumpfgiftnatter

Grå Sumpgiftsnog

1876 Hoplocephalus damelii Günther
Denisonia daemelii [sic] Boulenger 1986
Drepanodontis daemelii [sic] Worrell 1961
Hemiaspis damaelii [sic] Schwaner, Miller & Tyler 1985
1892 Hoplocephalus suboccipitalis Ogilby (Golay & al. 1993)

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland).


Hemiaspis signata

Black-bellied Swamp Snake, Black-bellied Marsh Snake

Schwarzbauch-Sumpfgiftnatter

Sortbuget Sumpgiftsnog

1859 Alecto signata Jan
Hoplocephalus signatus Vis 1884
Denisonia signata Boulenger 1896
Austrelaps signata Worrell 1963
Hemiaspis signata Cogger 1979
1901 Denisonia vagrans Garman (Golay & al. 1993)
Hemiaspis vagrans Wells & Wellington 1984

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland [incl. Fraser Island]).