Drysdalia coronoides
White-lipped Snake at Kosciuszko National Park
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| Drysdalia coronoides | PatrickCampbell2 | 10 Mar 2025 | ||
| Drysdalia coronoides | CarbonAI | 5 Mar 2024 | ||
| Pseudonaja textilis | AshW | 5 Mar 2024 |
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Small snake approx 40cm seen on Round Mountain trail on a sunny day .... ?baby eastern brown or ?baby copperhead or some other species? Unusual for a brown to be at this altitude?
2 comments
5 Mar 2024
Blurred image and head obscured. You haven't given us much to go on. Could be any of those. If juvenile Brown, did you notice if the head was black with another black band on the nape? If not, then possibly Drysdalia. I don't think it is a Copperhead.
10 Mar 2025
Looks most like and most likely to be Drysdalia coronoides at that altitude*. I can see the head and it lacks the black cap and nape of a juvenile Eastern Brown, but has the characteristic, continuous white upper lip stripe of D. coronoides.
*alt. =~1680m
*alt. =~1680m
Location information
- Coordinates 148.361500-36.075300
- Altitude 1590.0m
- Maps Kosciuszko National Park
- Places Jagungal Wilderness, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 2 Mar 2024 05:57 PM Recorded on
- AshW Recorded by
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Species information
- Drysdalia coronoides Scientific name
- White-lipped Snake Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1957.84m Recorded at altitude
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