Common snake’s found in your backyard
Eastern Small-eye Snake
Significance to Humans: Highly Venomous.
Bites from this species have caused one human fatality.
Will bite readily and thrash about if handled. Bites from
this species should be treated immediately and attended
to with correct first aid
Highly Venomous.
Eastern brown
Bites from this species have caused human fatalities. A nervous,
ready biter it will defend itself if threatened. Maintains a strong
defensive “S” shaped posture. The second most toxic land snake in
the world and the most venomous in South East Queensland. Bites
from this species should be treated immediately and attended to
with correct first aid
Carpet python
Non-venomous.
Bites may cause substantial lacerations or punctures.
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Whip snake
Potentially Dangerous.
Especially if children involved.
Bite may cause localised pain & severe symptoms. Apply correct
first aid and seek medical attention
Green tree
Non-venomous.
Inoffensive and bites infrequently. Emits a strong odor from
the cloaca if handled firmly
White crown
Weakly venomous. Not considered dangerous to humans.
All crowned snakes are reluctant biters, relying more on bluff display
than bite. They are weakly venomous and have tiny mouths and short fangs. They will generally
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rear up & ‘mock strike’ with mouth closed, more of a ‘head butt’. If
bitten, as with any snake bite, apply correct first aid and seek
medical attention.
Red belly Highly Venomous.
Reclusive disposition but will inflate and flatten the body and neck
in an effort to intimidate a perceived aggressor. Bites from this
species should be treated immediately and attended to with
correct first aid. It’s supposed fearsome reputation is well
exaggerated.
Brown tree snake
Weakly venomous.
Conjecture surrounds the toxicity of this species with most
authorities regarding it as a minimal risk to all but young children
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Common lizards found in your back yard
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Bearded dragon
eastern water dragon
blue tongue skink
All snakes should be treated with respect. They can be quite calm but are very
unpredictable, don’t try to pick up and handle a snake. You may be taking a life
threatening step so don’t become a statistic. Call a registered snake catcher. If
you want a snake identified take a photo and ask you snake catcher for an email
address to send the photo for I .D they will then get back to you.
Snake catcher’s charge to remove snakes. So if you have a snake in your house try
to keep it in one room close the door push a rolled up towel against the door so it
can’t escape into the rest of the house.
If your snake is outside remember that’s where they live, most time’s they are
just passing through and don’t stay for long .shut doors keep dogs and cats in
until it moves off. Keep your yard tidy and grass short that way there aren’t too
many places for snake to come and hide.
My name is Michele Chubb phone 0401758562
Email joechele@bigpond.con if I can’t help you I will give you a phone number for
someone who can.
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Freshwater Snake (Keelback Snake)
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Freshwater Snake
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, Tropidonophis mairii
Photograph by Richard Jackson.
Identification:
The Freshwater Snake (also known as the Keelback) is olive brown with irregular dark cross-bands. The body
scales are strongly keeled, producing ridges that run along the snake’s body. Flecks of pale skin can often be
seen through the scales. The belly is cream and usually flushed with a pink or orange tinge along the edges.
Dark bars can be seen between the sutures on the upper lip scales. This species grows to 75 cm. Midbody
scale rows 15 (rarely 17); ventrals 130–165; anal divided; subcaudals divided 50–85.
Distribution:
Found in coastal areas of northern Australia from northern New South Wales to the Kimberley, Western
Australia.
Habitat:
Lives in well watered situations along creeks and in swamps but also found in eucalypt forests, heaths,
pastures, parks and suburban gardens. Habits: This species is active both day and night. It is usually found at
ground level, but can climb well (a specimen was observed 5 m up a melaleuca tree in a swamp on Cape York
Peninsula).
Danger:
A non-venomous, inoffensive species.
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Rough-scaled Snake
Tropidechis carinatus
Rough-scaled Snake, Tropidechis carinatus.
Photograph by Richard Jackson.
Identification:
The Rough-scaled Snake has a dull brown to olive brown back with irregular bands or blotches across the
body. The belly is cream, sometimes with a greenish tinge. The scales on the back and sides each have a
pronounced, central ridge (keel) running along their length. The species grows to 1 metre. Midbody scale rows
23; ventrals 160–185; anal single; subcaudals single 50–60.
Distribution: Occurs in two widely separated, near-coastal populations. A northern population occurs from
Windsor Tableland to the Bluewater Range (north-eastern Queensland) and a southern population from Fraser
Island (south-eastern Queensland) to Barrington Tops (New South Wales).
Danger:
A dangerously venomous species with strongly neurotoxic venom. It is a ready biter and is responsible for at
least one human death and several severe envemomations. If bitten, apply first aid and seek urgent medical
attention. First aid procedure for any snakebite from the Australian Venom Research Unit
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Tiger Snake
Notechis scutatus
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Identification: The Tiger Snake has a solid build and a large, flat head. The back is usually olive green to
brown with numerous ‘ragged' crossbands. The belly is cream to grey. This species grows to 2 meters.
Midbody scale rows 17–19 (rarely 15); ventrals 140–190; anal single; subcaudals single 35–65.
Distribution: Found in south-eastern Queensland, eastern and southern New South Wales, most of Victoria,
south-eastern South Australia, Tasmania and the islands of Bass Strait. In Queensland, Tiger Snakes are
found as isolated populations (Carnarvon Ranges, Maryborough, Cooloola, Caloundra-Beerwah, Bunya
Mountains, Border and Main Ranges). A single specimen was collected on North Stradbroke Island in 1912
(Queensland Museum record).
Habitat:This species is mainly found in moist areas; rainforests, heaths, open forests and river floodplains.
Habits: This species is active by day but is also nocturnal in warm weather.
Danger: Tiger Snakes are dangerously venomous. Their venom is strongly neurotoxic and haemotoxic and
bites have resulted in many human deaths. If bitten, apply first aid and seek urgent medical attention. First aid
procedure for any snakebite from the Australian Venom Research Unit
This photo of a tiger snake was taken at
Darlington in qld.
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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 the world. While, unlike its sister adder
species, the common death adder remains widespread, it is facing increased threat
from the ongoing Australian cane toad invasion. Unlike the common or European adder
(Vipera berus),[1] the common death adder is a member of the Elapidae family, rather
than the Viperidae family of snakes, which are not found in Australia.
HABITAT Common death adders are found in forests, woodlands, grasslands and
heaths of the eastern coast of Australia. The death adder is a master of camouflage,
due to its band stripes, hiding beneath loose leaf litter and debris in woodland,
scrubland and grassland.
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