Inland Carpet Snake: S1, Defensive

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia)

Order:

Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)

Family:

Python (Serpentes: Pythonidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Inland Carpet Snake (Morelia spilota ssp metcalfei)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Defensive🔎

Thank you Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere

This species is protected and classed as

RA (Rare)

under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act

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