%0 Book Section %B Venomous Animals and Their Venoms %D Submitted %T Chapter 23: The Venomous Snakes of Australia and Melanesia %A Cogger, H. G. %E W. Biicherl %E E.E. Buckley %C London %I Academic Press %M PR0000343 %P 35-77 %X Classification, origins and relationships of these snakes; general discussion of venomous land snakes of the area; a list of Australian species and a list of New Guinea species with common names; key to genera of Australian elapids; key to New Guinea elapid genera; venomous land snakes of the Solomon Is; key to Solomon Is. elapids; dangerous land snakes of the area discussed individually each with a map of its distribution, an illustration and comments on the venom; reference to snake bite. %9 Book Section