Snake ID, Coober Pedy

[andynic07]

Cogger has Pseudonaja mengdeni at 2 metres total length, which is also the average adult length of Oxyuranus microlepidotus.

2m sounds very big for a mengdeni. I thought they maxed out around 1m. Here is a couple of pictures of mine with some eye shots, it is just under a meter and about as thick as your pointer finger.

 

[Bushman]

It does sound surprisingly big doesn't it. Perhaps it's the maximum rather than the average, as Wilson and Swan have the total length of mengdeni at 1.2 m.

Those pics illustrate the reddish-orange ring around the pupil quite well. BTW nice mengdeni.