Pseudechis porphyriacus

Red-bellied Black Snake at Tharwa, ACT

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Identification history

Pseudechis porphyriacus	5 Mar 2025	wombey
Austrelaps ramsayi	5 Mar 2025	CarbonAI
Pseudechis porphyriacus	5 Mar 2025	ChrisHolder

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Snake eating another snake.

4 comments

WendyEM wrote:

5 Mar 2025

Wow, what a sighting

wombey wrote:

5 Mar 2025

It looks like it might be eating an Eastern Brown Snake

ChrisHolder wrote:

6 Mar 2025

I thought it was another red belly, not sure though.

wombey wrote:

6 Mar 2025

Actually, on closer inspection, it is a Red-bellied Black Snake. Well spotted

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Sighting information

2 Abundance
4 Mar 2025 10:19 AM Recorded on
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ChrisHolder NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Snakes Reptiles and Frogs

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Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

Pseudechis porphyriacus Scientific name
Red-bellied Black Snake Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1428.4m Recorded at altitude
322 images trained Machine learning

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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania