Pseudonaja textilis (Eastern Brown Snake)
Elapid
Eastern Brown Snake is one of nine brown snake species found in Australia. Eastern Brown Snake is also found in PNG and Indonesia. Adults may be highly variable in colour. Whilst usually a uniform shade of brown, they can range from a very pale fawn colour through to black, including orange, silver, yellow and grey. The species may grow up to 1.8 metres.
Juveniles typically have black heads with a bar on the nape (behind the head) and in this region they have many regularly spaced thin black bands down the body, which distinguishes them from other local snakes. The dark heads, nape bar and body bands fade and disappear with age, usually after the first year.
Distribution: Relatively common in bushland, grassland, open forest and increasingly common in semi-rural areas on the outskirts of suburban areas.
Pseudonaja textilis is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | Central West NSW | Riverina Murray | Hume | Gippsland | Barwon South West | Loddon Mallee | Townsville | South East South Australia
Species information
- Pseudonaja textilis Scientific name
- Eastern Brown Snake Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1685.3m Recorded at altitude
- 413 images trained Machine learning
