2 Highlands Copperhead at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Austrelaps ramsayi | 18 Feb 2024 | wombey | ||
| Drysdalia coronoides | 18 Feb 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unverified | 18 Feb 2024 | MatthewFrawley |
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User's notes
About 1 metre in length, guessing a copperhead.
2 comments
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.866487-35.555894
- Places Reidsdale, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Feb 2024 02:01 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
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MatthewFrawley Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Austrelaps ramsayi Snakes Reptiles and Frogs
Additional information
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Austrelaps ramsayi Scientific name
- Highlands Copperhead Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1759.9m Recorded at altitude
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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