Herping On The Atherton Tablelands

[HerpNthusiast]

Hi everyone just came back from the Tablelands and thought i share some photos of some reptiles i managed to see unfortunately you're rarely there to see all of them but these are the ones i did get on camera.

Went to Eagles Nest Wildlife Hospital to pick up an Inland Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei) which we released on the verandah and into the rainforest.


A species of frog caught in the act i can't remember the species but please identify if anyone can.


Juvenile Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathius lesueurii) one of many we found (counted like 20)


A Saw Shell Turtle (Myuchelys latisternum)


A Boyd's Forest Dragon (Hypsilurus boydii)


Another smaller, but greener Boyd's Forest Dragon (Hypsilurus boydii)


An Adult Eastern Water Dragon


A juvenile Amethystine Python (Morelia amethistina)


And finally a Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii)


And i also spotted a juvenile monitor now it had white spots and a flattened tail (typical of a water monitor) so i believe it was a water or mangrove monitor if anyone can confirm this for me that'd be great.

Thanks, it was a great trip

 

[HerpNthusiast]

I now believe it was a Merten's Water Monitor as Mangrove's don't occur that far south.

 

[StunningMorelia]

Didn't realise the Murray Darling carpet occurs as north and as east as Atherton Tablelands?

 

[HerpNthusiast]

yeh it does

 

[StunningMorelia]

Do you have any links or anything? Isn't supported by anything I've found

 

[HerpNthusiast]

I actually believe it's a Proserpine Carpet or a Coastal.

 

[StunningMorelia]

That makes a lot more sense mate, Morelia spilota mcdowelli. Also Proserpine is a locality form of the coastal carpet python.

 

[eipper]

the Carpet Python is Morelia spilota cheynei. Water Dragons are Intellagama now, Boyd's are Lophosaurus now, the Frog are Litoria serrata