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23-Feb-07, 07:51 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: SE Qld | | | road kill ....what is it???
i found a snake on the way home it looks like only one car has hit it.It is about 2ft.Brown with the occasional black fleck on a few scales it has what i found weird a white bellie but with a strong red edges of the bellie just like red bellies . I dont want to down load a pic but if some one could help me just with what they think it is or give me various scale counts.Also i opened its mouth and coulnt find lond front fangs or rear fangs sorry there does look like there is fangs but they are minascule tiny clear on one side i would say probably fixed its definatle not a hypo carpet i had two of them living in my shed one of which was killed by next door neighbour, thinking it was a brown (typical of some to kill anything without knowing what it is).
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23-Feb-07, 07:53 PM
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sorry, really need pics to identify it.
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23-Feb-07, 07:54 PM
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sounds interesting and yum, i'm hungry now
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23-Feb-07, 08:07 PM
|  | Retired Snake Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | |
Brown Snakes usually have brown flecks on the belly, so maybe not a Brown. Does it have a 'groove' along its back? How many scales are there from left to right?
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23-Feb-07, 08:23 PM
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A pic would make it much easier.
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23-Feb-07, 08:27 PM
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i noticed some one wrote they are hungary thats ironic because i am going to give to a tawny i have been looking after since it fell out of its nest 4 months ago. i will get my mrs to take and post some pics while i bath the baby. where on the snake do i count the scales on also do go all the way around or just the brown scales on its back?
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23-Feb-07, 08:29 PM
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Sounds like a copperhead, but I'm not overly sure how far north they go???
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23-Feb-07, 08:30 PM
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looking at it to take the photo of it i should say it has mor than the ocaasional black fleck but the red on the edges on the bellie and the lack of any real fangs intregies me
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23-Feb-07, 08:34 PM
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being s/e qld,,id have to say a keelback
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23-Feb-07, 08:34 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | |
Probably a Keelback, the Freshwater Snake. i see you are from SE QLD. They are found there.
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23-Feb-07, 08:59 PM
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Here is a pic .. hope I did it right .... Nig said to mention the the scales are rough
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Jenny
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23-Feb-07, 09:02 PM
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That's a shame, it's a nice looking snake...is it a keelback as the others have mentioned??
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23-Feb-07, 09:03 PM
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Here is one of its under belly
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23-Feb-07, 09:09 PM
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thanx i am aabout 50 kms from the coast and 15 kms from the burnett river is everyone sure ther is few very small dams about i found it at the entry yo our estate at the top of a hill. also sth east qld means bunderberg
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23-Feb-07, 09:47 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: kilsyth Age: 14 | | | |
it probly keelback or a speckeld brown
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