Blue Bellie Black Snake

[grimbeny]

Ive heard of them but never by someone who knows anything about herps.

 

[snakesrule]

I hear of them quite often but the best explanation I can give you is mistaken identities of discoloured red bellied blacks, copperheads with their vast colour variations can also be misidentified and occasionally brown snakes (pseudonaja) can come in a black variation and their belly varies from cream to yellow & orange blotches.

 

[Fuscus]

there is a yellow bellied black snake found in the hills behind the gold coast. I've seen them. Beautiful animal but it is actually a color morph of a gts.

 

[TrueBlue]

lots of different snake species in oz can be black with a yellow belly, but there is no such snake as a yellow bellied black.

 

[nuthn2do]

The oil's song "king of the mountain" has no doubt contributed to the myth of a YBB.

 

[Zanejb]

the yellow bellied black as far as i know was a miss interpritation of a tiger snake morph. i think theres a tiger snake (dont ask me what one as i dont know much about elapids) thats black with a yellow belly but i dont know if its a wild type or if its a bred morph.

 

[-Peter]

C'mon, who was it from WA ramming down my throat a year or two back about Pseudechis butlerii being called a yellow bellied black snake? Who's word am i going to take Rob.

 

[TrueBlue]

It dosnt matter what part of oz you live in as theres always talk of the fabled "yellow bellied black" in each part of oz they are different snakes infact you can get a number of different species in the same area that can be black with a yellow belly, but there is no such snake in australia as a yellow bellied black snake.