Pseudonaja textilis

Eastern Brown Snake

Elapid

Eastern Brown Snake is one of nine brown snake species found in Australia. Eastern Brown Snake is also found in PNG and Indonesia. Adults may be highly variable in colour. Whilst usually a uniform shade of brown, they can range from a very pale fawn colour through to black, including orange, silver, yellow and grey. The species may grow up to 1.8 metres.

Juveniles often have black heads with a bar behind the head, which distinguishes them from other local snakes with black heads. They may also bands down the rest of the body. The dark heads, bar and bands fade and disappear after the first year. 

Distribution: Very common throughout region.

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Species information

• Pseudonaja textilis Scientific name
• Eastern Brown Snake Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local Native
• Non-Invasive
• 0m to 1685.3m Recorded at altitude

Location information

• Maps

  ANBG Aranda Bushland Australian National University Bimberi Nature Reserve Black Mountain Bluetts Block Area Brindabella National Park Bruce Ridge Budjan Galindji (formerly Franklin Grassland) Reserve Bullen Range Cooleman Ridge Cotter Reserve Crace Grasslands Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Dryandra St Woodland Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Gibraltar Pines Gigerline Nature Reserve Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Googong Foreshore Goorooyarroo Gungaderra Grasslands Hall Cemetery Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Jedbinbilla Jerrabomberra Grassland Jerrabomberra Wetlands Kambah Pool Kosciuszko National Park Lake Burley Griffin Central/East Lake Burley Griffin West Lake Ginninderra Lower Cotter Catchment Molonglo River Reserve Mongarlowe River Mount Ainslie Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Pleasant Mount Rogers Mount Taylor Mulanggari Grasslands Mulligans Flat Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests Percival Hill Pine Island to Point Hut Piney Ridge Point Hut to Tharwa Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Rob Roy Range Rugosa at Yass River Sherwood Forest Stirling Park Stony Creek Swamp Creek TEST ONLY - test 2 The Pinnacle Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Tuggeranong Hill Turallo Nature Reserve Umbagong District Park University of Canberra Upper Stranger Pond Uriarra Recreation Reserve Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area Wanniassa Hill Woodstock Nature Reserve Yarramundi Grassland

• Points of interest

  Mt Majura Mini Summit Point 60

• Places

  Acton, ACT Ainslie, ACT Amaroo, ACT Banks, ACT Belconnen, ACT Booth, ACT Bruce, ACT Bungendore, NSW Bywong, NSW Campbell, ACT Canberra Central, ACT Captains Flat, NSW Chapman, ACT Conder, ACT Cook, ACT Coree, ACT Cotter River, ACT Curtin, ACT Denman Prospect, ACT Downer, ACT Duffy, ACT Dunlop, ACT Evatt, ACT Fadden, ACT Farrer, ACT Flynn, ACT Forde, ACT Franklin, ACT Fraser, ACT Frogmore, NSW Fyshwick, ACT Googong, NSW Gordon, ACT Greenway, ACT Gundaroo, NSW Gungahlin, ACT Hackett, ACT Hall, ACT Hawker, ACT Holt, ACT Hughes, ACT Hume, ACT Isaacs, ACT Isabella Plains, ACT Jerrabomberra, ACT Jerrabomberra, NSW Kaleen, ACT Kambah, ACT Karabar, NSW Kingston, ACT Lake George, NSW Latham, ACT Lawson, ACT Macarthur, ACT Melba, ACT Michelago, NSW Mitchell, ACT Molonglo Valley, ACT Murrumbateman, NSW Ngunnawal, ACT Nicholls, ACT Oallen, NSW O'Connor, ACT Paddys River, ACT Pialligo, ACT Queanbeyan, NSW Red Hill, ACT Spence, ACT Stromlo, ACT Sutton, NSW Tennent, ACT Tharwa, ACT Theodore, ACT Tuggeranong DC, ACT Uriarra, ACT Wamboin, NSW Watson, ACT Weston, ACT Williamsdale, NSW Winifred, NSW Yarralumla, ACT Yarrangobilly, NSW Yarrow, NSW Yass River, NSW Yass, NSW

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