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This article lists the various snakes of Australia which live in a wide variety of habitats around the country. The Australian scrub python is Australia's largest native snake. Victoria
The common death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) is a species of death adder native to Australia. It is one of the most venomous land snakes in Australia and globally. While it remains widespread (unlike related species), it is facing increased threat from the ongoing Australian cane toad invasion.
Pale-headed blind snake; Pale-headed snake; Paroplocephalus; Peninsula brown snake; Pilbara bandy bandy; Pilbara death adder; Prong-snouted blind snake; Proximus blind snake; Pseudoferania; Pseudonaja; Pseudonaja mengdeni; Pseudonaja nuchalis; Pygmy copperhead; Pygmy mulga snake; Pygmy python
Western brown snake along fenceline in oat stubble. Mt Barker, Western Australia. The western brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni) is commonly known as Mengden's brown snake, [2] and alternatively, gwardar. [3] Pseudnaja mengdeni is endemic to Australia.
north-western shovel-nosed snake Western Australia: S. australis (Krefft, 1864) None Australian coral snake South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria: S. bertholdi (Jan, 1864) None desert banded snake Australia: S. calonotus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) None black-striped burrowing snake Western Australia: S ...
The Kimberley death adder (Acanthophis cryptamydros) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae native to northwestern Australia. [3]Richard Wells and Ross Wellington gave the Kimberley death adder its scientific name Acanthophis lancasteri—in honour of Burt Lancaster—in a 1985 monograph, citing as the type specimen an adult collected 45 kilometres (28 mi) north-northeast of ...
Hemiaspis signata (common names: black-bellied swamp snake [4] and marsh snake [5]) is a species of venomous elapid snake endemic to Australia, where it is found along the east coast. [ 6 ] Recognisable by two distinctive narrow white lines on the face, the colour can range from pale olive to black top with a dark grey to black belly.
Dendrelaphis punctulatus, also known commonly as the Australian tree snake, the common tree snake, and the green tree snake, is a species of slender, large-eyed, diurnal, non-venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to many parts of Australia, especially in the northern and eastern coastal areas, and to Papua New Guinea ...