Suta (snake)

Suta
Suta suta, curl snake
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Genus:	Suta Worrell, 1961

Suta is a genus of venomous snakes in the family Elapidae. The genus is endemic to mainland Australia.

Species

• Suta dwyeri (Worrell, 1956) – Dwyer's snake, variable black-naped snake, whip snake – New South Wales, Queensland
• Suta fasciata (Rosén, 1905) – Rosen's snake – Western Australia
• Suta flagellum (McCoy, 1878) – little whip snake, whip hooded snake – New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria
• Suta gaikhorstorum Maryan, Brennan, Hutchinson, & Geidans, 2020 – Pilbara hooded snake – Western Australia
• Suta gouldii (Gray, 1841) – black-headed snake, Gould's hooded snake – Western Australia
• Suta monachus (Storr, 1964) – hooded snake, monk snake – New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia
• Suta nigriceps (Günther, 1863) – black-backed snake, copper snake, Mallee black-backed snake, Mitchell's short-tailed snake – New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
• Suta ordensis (Storr, 1984) – Ord curl snake – Northern Territory (?), Western Australia
• Suta punctata (Boulenger, 1896) – little spotted snake, spotted snake – Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
• Suta spectabilis (Krefft, 1869) – Port Lincoln snake, spectacled hooded snake – New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
• Suta suta (W. Peters, 1863) – curl snake (eastern states), myall snake (Western Australia) – New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Toxicity

Snakes belonging to the genus Suta are mildly to highly venomous, depending on the species.

Further reading

• Worrell E (1961). "Herpetological Name Changes". West Australian Naturalist 8: 18–27. (Suta, new genus).