- Pygmy Copperhead
Taxobox
name = Pygmy Copperhead
status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo =Squamata
subordo =Serpentes
familia =Elapidae
genus = "Austrelaps "
species = "A. labialis"
binomial = "Austrelaps labialis"
binomial_authority = Jan,1859 The Pygmy copperhead ("Austrelaps labialis") is a venomous, elapid, snakespecies endemic toAustralia and restricted toSouth Australia . It is not closely related to the American this Copperhead, "Agkistrodon contortrix ".References
* Listed as Vulnerable (VU B1+2c v2.3)
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