| a new species of death adder (acanthophis: serpentes: elapidae) from north-western australia. | australian death adders (genus acanthophis) are highly venomous snakes with conservative morphology and sit-and-wait predatory habits, with only moderate taxonomic diversity that nevertheless remains incompletely understood. analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences and morphological characteristics of death adders in northern australia reveal the existence of a new species from the kimberley region of western australia and the northern territory, which we describe as acanthophis cryp ... | 2015 | 26623813 |