Austrelaps ramsayi

2 Highlands Copperhead at QPRC LGA

Austrelaps ramsayi at QPRC LGA - 18 Feb 2024 02:01 PM
Austrelaps ramsayi at QPRC LGA - 18 Feb 2024 02:01 PM
Austrelaps ramsayi at QPRC LGA - 18 Feb 2024 02:01 PM
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Austrelaps ramsayi 18 Feb 2024 wombey
Drysdalia coronoides 18 Feb 2024 CarbonAI
Unverified 18 Feb 2024 MatthewFrawley

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About 1 metre in length, guessing a copperhead.

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wombey wrote:
   18 Feb 2024
Given the locality and the fact that the white anterior edge of the labial scales appear to cover less than one third of each scale, this could be Austrelaps superbus?
WillO wrote:
   19 Feb 2024
Agreed, if the site was in East Gippsland you might id this as the Lowland Copperhead (superbus). There appear to be no confirmed records of superbus in NSW but given their occurrence to near the NSW border near Mallacootah in East Gippsland (Robertson and Coventry 2019) worth keeping a lookout for their occurrence in NSW.

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