Drysdalia coronoides

White-lipped Snake at Kosciuszko National Park

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Identification history

Drysdalia coronoides	10 Mar 2025	PatrickCampbell2
Drysdalia coronoides	5 Mar 2024	CarbonAI
Pseudonaja textilis	5 Mar 2024	AshW

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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?

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wombey wrote:

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.

PatrickCampbell2 wrote:

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

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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
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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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