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03-Apr-08, 08:56 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: somewhere near Wingham Mid North Coast of NSW Gender:  | | | Is this snake a white crown snake or a brown?
Well everyone , 
This little snake has caused some controversy on another forum.
Was found in a house up in Rockhampton QLD .
Snake is around 45cm long?
Experts! say its a brown yet others say its a white-crown snake.
Snake was a little agressive on capture but has been released back into the bush.
Any one can say for sure if its one or the other...
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03-Apr-08, 08:59 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | It's a crowned snake for sure, the head shape is a dead giveaway.
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03-Apr-08, 09:02 AM
|  | Bendy! Sponsor | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | | | Yes, it's a White Crowned Snake - Cacophis harrieattae.
Juvenile Eastern Brown Snakes will always have a black band on their nape and a black blotch on the top of their head, and are very rarely, if ever, black in body colouration. They most definitely never have a white band on their nape.
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03-Apr-08, 09:03 AM
| | | | Definately a white crown snake as the crown snakes have that typical stance when being defensive.
Head shape is very different to a brown also. |
03-Apr-08, 09:17 AM
|  | LEHOOO ZE HURRRR ^_^ Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: herpin on the gold coast ;D Gender: | | | whoever told you it was a brown was obviously not trying to hard to identify it 
its definately a crowned.
as stated before, the head shape, the scales, and the patterning are all obvious for a crowned and yours is a white crowned 
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03-Apr-08, 02:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: kellyville,sydney Age/Gender: 34 | | | | how could you mix a crown with a brown how dumb
poor old crown
i got a call to a vet to come look at a juvnile red bellie black,and when i got there was greeted with a glass jar with a young crown snake
they thought it was a black snake
poor ole crown snakes
crown snake in it |
03-Apr-08, 06:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Bathurst Gender: | | | | Yes its def a White Crown Snake. |
03-Apr-08, 06:43 PM
|  | Herping Freak! Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: mid north coast Age/Gender: 14 | | | | awsome find, definately a white crowned snake
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03-Apr-08, 07:33 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-08 Location: somewhere near Wingham Mid North Coast of NSW Gender: | | | thanks everyone for that! I thought it would be but I am no snake expert.
Little fellow is now at a new location away from houses.. | |
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