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 | Loddon Mallee | Townsville
Species information
- Pseudonaja textilis Scientific name
- Eastern Brown Snake Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1685.3m Recorded at altitude
- 353 images trained Machine learning
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Maps
AARON POLY 1 Aarons Test Map ANBG ANBG South Annex Aranda Bushland Australian National University Bimberi Nature Reserve Black Mountain Black Street Grasslands to Stirling Ridge Block 402 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 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 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 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 Namadgi National Park National Arboretum Forests O'Connor Ridge to Gungahlin Grasslands Percival Hill Pine Island to Point Hut Piney Ridge Point Hut Hill Point Hut to Tharwa QPRC LGA Queanbeyan River Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek Rob Roy Range Rugosa Sherwood Forest Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park Stirling Park Stony Creek Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Swamp Creek TEST ONLY - test 2 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 West Stromlo Woodstock Nature Reserve Yarramundi Grassland -
Survey points
Mt Majura Mini Summit Point 60 -
Places
Acton, ACT Ainslie, ACT Amaroo, ACT Aranda, ACT Banks, ACT Belconnen, ACT Berremangra, NSW Bombowlee, NSW Bookham, NSW Booth, ACT Borough, NSW Brindabella, NSW Bruce, ACT Bungendore, NSW Bywong, NSW Campbell, ACT Canberra Central, ACT Captains Flat, NSW Cavan, NSW Chapman, ACT Conder, ACT Cook, ACT Cooma, NSW Coree, ACT Cotter River, ACT Crace, ACT Curtin, ACT Denman Prospect, ACT Downer, ACT Dry Plain, NSW Duffy, ACT Dunlop, ACT Environa, NSW 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 Numeralla, NSW 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 Throsby, ACT Tuggeranong DC, ACT Tuggeranong, ACT Uriarra, ACT Wamboin, NSW Watson, ACT Weston Creek, ACT Weston, ACT Williamsdale, NSW Winifred, NSW Yarralumla, ACT Yarrangobilly, NSW Yarrow, NSW Yass River, NSW Yass, NSW
