Denisonia adalah nama genus yang terdiri dari dua spesies Elapidae endemik Australia. Nama genus ular ini diperoleh dari nama belakang anggota pemerintah di Australia pada abad ke-19 bernama William Thomas Denison.[1]
Klasifikasi
- Denisonia devisi (WAITE & LONGMAN, 1920)
- Denisonia maculata (STEINDACHNER, 1867)
Referensi
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Genus Denisonia, p. 69; species Denisonia devisi, p. 71).
Pustaka dan pranala luar
- Krefft G (1869). The Snakes of Australia; An Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All the Known Species. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer. xxv + 100 pp. + Plates I-XII. (Denisonia, new genus, pp. 82–83 + Plate XI, figure 4).
- Waite ER, Longman HA (1920). "Descriptions of Little-known Australian Snakes". Rec. South Australian Mus. 1 (3): 173-180 + Plate XXVII. (Denisonia maculata var. devisi, new name, pp. 178–179, Text figure 36 + Plate XXVII, figure 2).
- Wilson, Steve (2003). Reptiles of the Southern Brigalow Belt. Australia: World Wildlife Fund. pp. 33–34.
