Bush's Hooded Snake (Parasuta bushi) holotype from Scaddan, Western Australia

First collected in 1986 and described to science in 1988; only five specimens known from a small remnant of wheatbelt bushland. Recent searches for it have been unsuccessful possibly because the locality has been cleared of bush. Discovered in 1986, possibly extinct in 1995! A nocturnal, live-bearing, lizard-eating elapid that probably grows to no more than 50 cm (20 inches).

Reference: Storr, G.M. 1988. A new Rhinoplocephalus (Serpentes: Elapidae) from Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 14 (1): 137-138.