Australia Coral Snake
S1, profile
Yellow-faced Whip Snake
Face
| Australia Coral Snake S1, profile | | Yellow-faced Whip Snake Face | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia) | |||
| Order: | Scaled Reptiles (Squamata) | ||||
| Family: | Venomous snake (Elapidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Australia Coral Snake (Brachyurophis australis) | ||||
| This Photo: | S2, Head & Snout | ||||
Thank you Prakrit Jain for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere Two of these were found on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's. A small beautiful snake with 2 black patches on it's head & neck. Specimen 2 was ~260mm long (full length as we aren't sure where the vent is, we weren't able get ventral shots). The dorsal area is covered with large red patches, of varying widths, separated by white & black diamonds. This gives it a very striped appearance. They have a curious snout, like a curved up lip. Shown here is the 1st specimen at the point of release. The 2nd specimen was covered in sand which hid the patterns, but we managed to get the shape of the stout in one shot. | |||||
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