Wild caught

[aspidito]

Help needed from the Elapid experts, can you ID this snake caught in the far north of SA.
Cheers, Paul.

 

[boogeralby]

Hi mate,

Im going to go out on a limb and say Pseudonaja nuchalis ssp. I'm not sure of which of the newly named sub species it would be but I've seen a similar animal in the Sturt n.p.

Beautiful animal...

 

[waruikazi]

Hi mate,

Im going to go out on a limb and say Pseudonaja nuchalis ssp. I'm not sure of which of the newly named sub species it would be but I've seen a similar animal in the Sturt n.p.

Beautiful animal...

As far as i have read up the there are no ssp of Nuchalis and the species was redescribed into 4 full species.

If i'm going to follow my own advice i'd have to say that i couldn't pin it as anything more than a brown with total certainty. However going off the location it could be Pseudonaja aspidoryncha. Very very nice looking animal either way, do you have more pictures?

 

[Jonno from ERD]

G'day Paul,

It's Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha - it has recently been split from Western Browns Pseudonaja nuchalis.

Cheers

 

[aspidito]

Thanks guys, how can you tell the difference between P aspidorhyncha or P mengdeni or for that matter P nuchalis.
Here is a picture of another one similar but no banding.
Cheers, Paul.

 

[Jonno from ERD]

G'day Paul,

Email me at [email protected] and I'll send you the paper.

Cheers