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Southern Desert Banded Snake
Simoselaps bertholdi
Simoselaps bertholdi, also known commonly as Jan's banded snake or the southern desert banded snake, is a species of burrowing mildly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia.
From the article Simoselaps bertholdi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The geographic range of S. bertholdi covers a broad swathe of arid inland Australia from central and western South Australia and the south-west of the Northern Territory, westwards across Western Australia to the western coast of the continent.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
The specific epithet bertholdi honours German physician and naturalist Arnold Adolph Berthold.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Simoselaps bertholdi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 35130.