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    Narrow-banded Shovel Nosed Snakes (pics)

    Just got back from a weekend get away up in the Cervantes area and found this good looking Narrow-banded Shovel Nosed Snake and thought I might share a few pictures with you.
    The night temps were not as good as I thought they would be and the land was bone dry (70+ days without a drop of rain).
    If you have any pictures of any type of shovel nosed snakes, posts the pictures up.

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    looks like a chubby little thing!!
    love the pattern!!
    Some people are like slinkys, not really good fro anything, but still bring a smile to ur face when u push them down a flight of stairs,....

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    Gravid??????

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    Nice pics did you see much else I haven't been up that way for a while.

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    Wow that is a fat momma! Nice one, this is one i found in Lajamanu. We decided it was a northern shovel nose. (dodgy pics taken on a mobile)





    and i found this one in the same week but about 900km away in Boroloola, obviously dead. Also a northern.



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    my veiw is that with out high prices the up and coming herpers (kids just starting) have nothing to look forward too or dream

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    I wouldn't say she is gravid as it was not the best type of conditions for breeding, but saying that I am not 100% sure when they breed. It was in fact a she as well.

    We did see a few geckos (Barking Geckos and velvets) in a big cave we went through (a few bats as well) and a really underweight bobtail that only from the looks of it had skin and bone left on it, so that goes to show how dry and lack of food there is up there at the moment.

    Nice looking snake you found waruikazi, ashamed about the dead one from the looks of it, it would have been a good looking one!

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    Thanks Niall,

    Do you guys ever come across butleri in your herp trips, if so any pics????

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    They are the only two i've ever found but apparently the 2nd one is quite a common colour for the northenr parts of the NT. According to the Wilson and Swan the species may consist of several sub-species which could explain why the one out of Lajamanu looks so different.
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    Very nice. They are so much nicer looking than our northern shovels
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    Hey mate,
    butleri are found more inland and I have not been that far North/East into WA yet.
    I have to get out there sooner or later.

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    Just 3 more pictures.
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