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06-Sep-07, 06:43 PM
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Hey everyone.
I work in a child care centre and one of my littles guys brought this in today. It was found yesterday in a spiders web already dead. can anyone tell me what it is please? Sorry about the bad quality of the pic. |
06-Sep-07, 06:45 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 26  | | | | brown snake?
wonder what kind of spider it was |
06-Sep-07, 06:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: ipswich Age/Gender: 17 | | | | i would say its an eastern brown |
06-Sep-07, 07:00 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: Northern NSW Age/Gender: 38  | | | | I'd say a brown.
Please make sure none of the kids touch it anywhere near the head. They can still be venomous even after death.
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06-Sep-07, 07:41 PM
|  | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Looks like a Keelback to me or some sort of colubrid - i'm not too familiar with the colubrids excluding the Tree Snakes and Keelback, so if it's not a Keelback than i don't know. If it is a colubrid it should have a small 'groove' running down its spine. If it is a Brown Snake it will have small brown blotches on its belly, which i presume it doesn't.
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06-Sep-07, 07:54 PM
|  | Badonkadonk Bandit Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Nikonia Gender: | | | | Head shape and scales don't look like typical textilis. |
06-Sep-07, 08:00 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Cairns | | | | Very hard to tell, but I'm thinking maybe slatey grey?
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06-Sep-07, 08:02 PM
|  | *38th WARNING* Subscriber | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Newcastle | | | | Maybe a whipsnake. look at its tail............ |
06-Sep-07, 08:04 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Being in a spider web i would doubt its an eastern brown, they generally have bands and stuff as far as i know.
I would go with some species of elapid...
The spider would be a red back for sure, they are reptile specialists. |
06-Sep-07, 08:05 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Where was it found? |
06-Sep-07, 08:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | I think i can see a loreal scale, pretty hard to tell though, if so mags might be right with Stegonotus cucullatus
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[9:34:59] dpeica: if snakes were meant to be held they'd have handles.
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07-Sep-07, 12:32 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | Any more photos, maybe from another angle?
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[9:34:59] dpeica: if snakes were meant to be held they'd have handles.
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07-Sep-07, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by cris  Being in a spider web i would doubt its an eastern brown, they generally have bands and stuff as far as i know.
I would go with some species of elapid...
The spider would be a red back for sure, they are reptile specialists. | Please excuse my ignorance but i try to avoid spiders and any associated knowledge... but the redback didn't actually kill that snake did it? It wasn't trying to eat it was it?
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07-Sep-07, 12:43 PM
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07-Sep-07, 12:54 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Rhinoplocephalus sp. ?
definately an elapid IMO after looking in cogger. | | |
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