Hey guys, Just a few finds from the season just passed. I apologise for photo quality, all taken with a phone.
Antaresia maculosa (spotted python) - Cecil Plains, QLD
Cacophis kreftii (southern dwarf crowned snake) - Main Range NP, QLD
Parasuta dwyeri (dwyer's snake) - Westmar, QLD...
ok so just failed at attempting to catch a small snake about 15 cm(make that 20/25cm just looked at a ruler ) that looked very much like a young golden crowned snake , only thing thats got me thinking that it might not be is that it was in a very dry/hot area in my backyard in amongst a heap of...
Ok so I went herping with Stephen around Coffs harbour and north of it. I had a great time and found many new species which pleased me. The last few shots are from around the hunter valley after we came back. The quality of my shots will vary because I was borrowing different equipment at...
A friend had a snake dragged in by his cat it appears to me to be a Golden Crown Snake but we are located in Nowra on the South Coast 3 hours south of Sydney. The snake is in my care now and I was hopping to release it back into the wild but where??? The people that found it had been away to the...
Dr David Vella, Exotics Veterinarian will be speaking on veterinary experiences with reptiles, both pet and wildlife.
Hope to see you there!
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts - Mitchell Theatre
280 Pitt Street
Sydney, Australia.
7pm for a 7.30pm start
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Found this fellow and 2 of its mates amongst mums retaining wall today along with plenty of gravid legless lizards(orange bellied ones) and some skinks. He posed well for the set up photo:D before being released back into the scrub much to mums dissmay and protest.
Sorry for the quality of the...
Hi all,
I am making this thread to assist with people making I.D's of snakes. Have been alot of threads lately and people guessing at I.D's. So i am making this thread for it. Please feel free to post pics of snakes for peopleto try and figure out what it is. Please explain your reasons for...
Hi everyone earlier this evening i found a smallish dark brown coloured looking snake underneath the cat litter tray it would be no more than 20cm long if that very slender and has a yellow line under its head almost straight across unlike the crowned snake???? which goes full around like a...
This photo was sent to me by a friend.
It was found in a wood heap in his back yard on the the coast just south of Newcastle. It regurgitated a skink soon after.
I thought possibly Cacophis krefftii - Southern Dwarf Crowned Snake??
And before everyone says "he shouldn't be handling a snake...
I thought I'd have some fun and post some shots of a snake i recently caught and see who can ID it first.
For the newbs, so you hard core seasoned herps with venom in your veins keep it to yourself eh!
ok first photo
will put another one up tomorrow!
Just thought I would post a few herping pics, don't want to leave anyone out that doesn't use the other forums. you now know who I am if you already didn't, enjoy. these are the species I have managed to photograph.
Agamidae
Amphibolurus muricatus Jacky Lizard
These lizards are very...
Hello, My Name is Felix. Im a semi-experienced aquarist wanting to look into herptology:D
I'm intent on Hypsilurus spinipes as a first lizard, but first would like to observe them in wild.
Going to lamington national park this weekend, any spotting tips?
Thanks!
Here are a few pictures from the AHS field trip to Smiths Lake, the following species were found while herping.
Amphibians
Litoria barringtonensis Leaf-green Tree Frog
Litoria chloris Red-eyed Tree Frog
Litoria fallax Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog
Litoria latopalmata Broad-palmed Frog
Litoria...
Did my usual night trip though to Colondale ranges. Not many herps, only 3 snakes and a pink-tongue but loads of furballs including a female (they are all female at this time of year) antechinus with two near-term young on her back and loads of deer. Drove back along a new path I mapped out on...
After the relatively dismal haul the night before, we decided that an effort should be made to get some slightly different species. Hazzard, Maddog77 and myself jumped in my car and headed northish. Maddog77 had previously been up this way following rain and found 16 species of frogs in 4kms of...
While at work the excavator was digging up the side of the road clearing away some camfaloral trees.And one of the boys came up to me and said you better go check whats in the bucket.And sitting on top of the dirt was a little snake he was roughly 300-350mm long and as thick as a pen.I found a...
I live near Nanango QLD and I found this guy about 15 minutes ago. He was quite narky when I tried to shoo him off with a hook.
He was approx 30cm long and had no traction on the cement. Any ID would be great as all my books are in boxes still!
Does anyone know if there are any cacophis species in captive collections or being bred anywhere in Australia?
I'm particularly interested in cacophis kreffti or Southern Dwarf Crowned Snake. It is probably one of the only elapid species I wish to own (in the foreseeable future) so I don't...
Hi All,
I found inside our house what appears to be a Golden-crowned Snake or Cacophis squamulosus of the Family Elapidae. However, I was under the impression that they were more Queensland based and I’m on the Central Coast in NSW.
Does anyone know whether it might be more likely to be a...
Hey guys I was just looking at some snake site and they had a picture of what they called a "Dwarf Crowned Snake" cacophis krefftii and I was wondering if you can buy these?
I have a QLD recreational licence. I am assuming that because it is an elapid, I would need a venomous licence even if it...
Hi,
Just a quick question about this snake. I just found it on my driveway, i live on the outskirts of Toowoomba (southeast queensland) and have never seen a snake like it before. It has a very peculiar yellow and brown splotch on its head and its eyes are very hard to distinguish. It is...
hi all, i will post a pic asap but my wife has the camera,
now wile cleaning my yard i have found a snake.
its about 15cm long all brown BUT has a white necklace. stream line head not agressive at all. it has no blemishs at all all brown I'm gessing a brown or king but i dont know the thing...