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[eipper]

Earthing,

Australian snakes a natural history by Rick Shine has a percentage of family map.

Bascially there is 43 typhlopids of 2 genera, 13 boids of 4 genera, 2 Acrochordids, 10 Colubrids of 2 sub families) the elapids with about 98 species in the sub family elapidae and 31 sp of hydrophiids giving an elapid total 129 sp and 2 laticaudids.

So that is 199 species of native snakes, there is aqlso an addition species of introduced coloubrid (Lycodon) on Christmas island so if that is included you have a total of 200 species.....however the there is a number of snakes (elapids and need taxonomic review) I could see this number hitting the 230 mark at some stage.

so a a rough breakdown
blindsnakes 21.5%
colubrids 5.5 %
elapids 64.5 %
Laticaudids 1 %
Acrochordids 1%
Boids 6.5%

These percentages are an indication of species diversity not numbers of specimens.

Cheers,
Scott Eipper