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16-Mar-08, 09:00 AM
|  | #44-9aCustom#GR-094 Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Out the Back of Queensland and a bit more Age: 99 | | |  Population percentage of Family names of Snakes in Australia?
Gday all. 
This question may be impossible, or extremely hard to quantify beyond a good guess, but someone may have had a go.
Im looking for the percentage of populations in Australia regading the different family names of snakes. So distribution percentage of Colubridae, Pyhtonidae, Elapidae etc in Australia.
I would imagine different states would have different predominate family names, which would be nice info, however a broad Australia wide figure will more then suffice.
Knowledge?
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16-Mar-08, 09:13 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: May-06 Location: redneck wonderland | | | | tasmania: 100% elapids... |
16-Mar-08, 09:16 AM
| | #44-9aCustom#GR-094 Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Out the Back of Queensland and a bit more Age: 99 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jack  tasmania: 100% elapids... | I said Australia.....  
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16-Mar-08, 12:22 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-07 Location: Gold Coast Age/Gender: 28  | | | | Earthing,
Australian snakes a natural history by Rick Shine has a percentage of family map.
Bascially there is 43 typhlopids of 2 genera, 13 boids of 4 genera, 2 Acrochordids, 10 Colubrids of 2 sub families) the elapids with about 98 species in the sub family elapidae and 31 sp of hydrophiids giving an elapid total 129 sp and 2 laticaudids.
So that is 199 species of native snakes, there is aqlso an addition species of introduced coloubrid (Lycodon) on Christmas island so if that is included you have a total of 200 species.....however the there is a number of snakes (elapids and need taxonomic review) I could see this number hitting the 230 mark at some stage.
so a a rough breakdown
blindsnakes 21.5%
colubrids 5.5 %
elapids 64.5 %
Laticaudids 1 %
Acrochordids 1%
Boids 6.5%
These percentages are an indication of species diversity not numbers of specimens.
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Scott Eipper |
16-Mar-08, 05:25 PM
| | #44-9aCustom#GR-094 Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-06 Location: Out the Back of Queensland and a bit more Age: 99 | | |
Thanks eipper .
I was getting all excited about your info...all very good, till I read the last sentence......  .
What you say your information is not, is what I am actually chasing........   .
I was looking at my original wording and I was wondering if people would interpret it correctly....my bad.
I will pinch some of your words if I may....
What Im chasing, is a percentage of snake family numbers/population in Australia.
Anyone else want to have a shot?
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16-Mar-08, 09:59 PM
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17-Mar-08, 02:07 AM
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There be none in Queensland if we don't find a way to kill them dan cain toads |
17-Mar-08, 09:14 AM
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18-Mar-08, 12:20 PM
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