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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
In his book Venom, which explores the development of a taipan antivenom in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s, author Brendan James Murray states that only one person is known to have survived an Oxyuranus bite without antivenom: George Rosendale, a Guugu Yimithirr person bitten at Hope Vale in 1949. Murray writes that Rosendale's condition was ...
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.
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.
The Australian scrub python is commonly considered arboreal or tree-dwelling, [citation needed] making it one of the world's largest and longest arboreal species of snakes. [citation needed] This snake has an ornate dorsal pattern consisting of browns and tans, with many different natural variations, and an iridescent sheen. [6]
With adults reaching over 4 m (13 ft) in total length (including the tail), L. olivaceus is Australia's third-largest snake species (surpassed only by the amethystine python and Oenpelli python). Its high number of dorsal scale rows (61–72 at midbody), makes the skin look smoother than that of other pythons.
It is a member of the genus Pseudonaja, sometimes referred to as brown snakes, contained in the family Elapidae. [9] The three subspecies descriptions currently accepted are: [10] Pseudonaja affinis affinis Günther, 1872 — coastal mainland Western Australia; Pseudonaja affinis exilis Storr, 1989 [11] — mainland Western Australia and ...