%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