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.
Pseudonaja textilis is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Hunter Region | Central West NSW | Riverina Murray | Hume | Loddon Mallee | Townsville
Species information
- Pseudonaja textilis Scientific name
- Eastern Brown Snake Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1685.3m Recorded at altitude
- 399 images trained Machine learning
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Maps
Albury ANBG ANBG South Annex ANU Baldessin Precinct ANU Banks Precinct ANU Garran Precinct Aranda Bushland Australian National University Ben Boyd National Park Bimberi Nature Reserve Black Mountain Black Street Grasslands to Stirling Ridge Block 402 Booderee National Park Boro Brindabella National Park Bruce Ridge Bruce Ridge to Gossan Hill Budjan Galindji (Franklin Grassland) Reserve Bullen Range Caladenia Forest, O'Connor Cooleman Ridge Cooma North Ridge Reserve Cotter Reserve Cotter Reservoir Crace Grasslands Denman Prospect 2 Estate Deferred Area (Block 12) Dryandra St Woodland Eight Mile Creek Farrer Ridge Flea Bog Flat, Bruce Gibraltar Pines Gigerline Nature Reserve Ginninderry Conservation Corridor Googong Foreshore Goorooyarroo NR (ACT) Gundaroo Common Gungaderra Grasslands Hall Cemetery Hall Horse Paddocks Hughes Grassy Woodland Illilanga & Baroona Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Jedbinbilla Jerrabomberra Creek Jerrabomberra Grassland Jerrabomberra Wetlands Kambah Pool Kosciuszko National Park Lake Burley Griffin Central/East Lake Burley Griffin West Lake Ginninderra Lions Youth Haven - Westwood Farm A.C.T. Lower Cotter Catchment Lower Molonglo Molonglo River Reserve Mongarlowe River Mount Ainslie Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain Mount Majura Mount Painter Mount Pleasant Mount Rogers Mount Taylor Mulanggari Grasslands Mulligans Flat Mumbulla State Forest Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests Norris Hill O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Percival Hill Pine Island to Point Hut Piney Ridge Point Hut Hill Point Hut to Tharwa Queanbeyan River Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Red Light Hill Reserve Reservoir Hill, Lawson Rob Roy Range Rock Valley, Tidbinbilla Rugosa Sherwood Forest Simpsons Hill South East Forest National Park Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park Stirling Park Stony Creek Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Suttons Dam Swamp Creek The Pinnacle Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Top Hut TSR Tuggeranong Hill Turallo Nature Reserve Umbagong District Park University of Canberra Upper Stranger Pond Uriarra Recreation Reserve Wandiyali-Environa Conservation Area Wanniassa Hill Watson Woodlands West Stromlo Wonga Wetlands Woodstock Nature Reserve Yarramundi Grassland Yass Gorge -
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Places
Acton, ACT Aranda, ACT Burrinjuck, NSW Charleys Forest, NSW Denman Prospect, ACT Fentons Creek, VIC Forde, ACT Fyshwick, ACT Hall, ACT Hume, ACT Jacka, ACT Kambah, ACT Lawson, ACT Michelago, NSW Mundarlo, NSW Tharwa, ACT Throsby, ACT Uriarra Village, ACT Uriarra, NSW Wallaroo, NSW Wooragee, VIC Yarralumla, ACT
