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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
Aplin, K. P. & Smith, L. A. (2001). "Checklist of the frogs and reptiles of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 63: 51– 74. Browne-Cooper, Robert; Brian Bush; Brad Maryan; David Robinson (2007). Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush: Southwestern Australia. University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 978-1-920694 ...
A. Acanthophis; Acanthophis hawkei; Acrochordus arafurae; Acrochordus granulatus; Aipysurus apraefrontalis; Aipysurus duboisii; Aipysurus foliosquama; Aipysurus fuscus
In addition to these native species, the following reptiles are naturalised in Western Australia: Hemidactylus frenatus (House Gecko) Ramphotyphlops braminus (Flowerpot Blind Snake) was introduced into Australia in 1968, and recorded in Western Australia for the first time in 1997; Trachemys scripta elegans (Red-eared Slider)
The dugite (/ ˈ dj uː ɡ aɪ t /; Pseudonaja affinis) is a species of venomous, potentially lethal snake endemic to Western Australia, a member of the family Elapidae.. Caution sign for dugite snakes in the coastal dunes near Swanbourne Beach in Swanbourne, Western Australia.
Neelaps calonotos, also known commonly as the black-striped burrowing snake, the black-striped snake, and the western black-striped snake, is a species of mildly venomous burrowing snake endemic to Australia. The specific epithet calonotos ("beautiful-backed") refers to the patterning on the upper surface of the body. [3]
Cogger HG (2014).Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition.Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. Gray JE (1841). ). "Description of some new Species and four new Genera of Reptiles from Western Australia, discovered by John Gould, Esq." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [First Series] 7: 86
Western brown snakes can be confused with the Eastern brown snake which has a pink mouth lining, [4] the Northern brown snake has a purplish/blue-black mouth lining. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] P. mengdeni has a distinctive large strap-like scale around the front of the snout. [ 8 ]