Snake ID

[Bench_Warmer01]

I had a friend from the kimberley area, send me these pictures of a snake they saw near her cabin, the locals including a 'knowledgable aboriginal man' assured everyone this snake was an olive python, I've already had it looked at.

but's an interesting one, and im bored,anyone else wanna have a guess? liasis or anteresia?

 

[dazzarama]

olive

 

[craig.a.c]

Last time I checked Olive pythons didn't have a pattern, looks to me like a childrens python.

 

[dazzarama]

but they come in different variations

 

[craig.a.c]

With the distinct stripe along the side of the face as with all childrens and stimsons?

 

[imported_Varanus]

Don't trust every "knowledgable aboriginal man" you meet in the Kimberley, I once had someone tell me the Black-headed Python I was removing from the road was venomous because , up that way , they all mate with King Browns !

Local Childrens, for sure!!

 

[Acrochordus]

It's not Liasis olivaceus, i reckon it is Antaresia childreni.
Thanks Tim.

 

[Kitah]

It has a faint pattern, so not an olive. Also, the headshape looks wrong to be an olive. Antaresia of some sort... childrens seem to fade the most with age, so possibly childrens?

 

[chickensnake]

ant would be my guess, lol it there a beetle hitching a ride in the 2nd pic?

 

[shellfisch]

Good size Children's....must be good tucker up there

 

[dazzarama]

its big 4 a childrens

 

[-Matt-]

Antaresia childreni - can see slight patterning and has a different looking head to Liasis.

 

[Bench_Warmer01]

I shouldve also added, this snake was around 1 metre long, Ive been trying to convince my friend it's a childrens, but according to her and the 'experienced aboriginal man' it's an olive, he knows because he's a local..

 

[Kitah]

Length is about right for a childrens python as well. definitely wasn't an olive

 

[thals]

That definitely looks like childreni to me, faint patterning but it's there.

 

[H.bitorquatus]

I think its a brown snake, mostly because its colour.

 

[Guest]

its a taipan I can see the fangs

 

[Kristy_07]

nope, juvie patternless burmese

 

[dazzarama]

its a retic

 

[schizmz]

Albino yellow eyelash pit viper.. its obvious. 8)