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BiteAndSqueeze

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Hi guys. Just wondering if you can help me identify the attached snakey seen on a road side in Kakadu NT. Pretty snake about 1.5 m long
 

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Where was it located? Looks like a Coastal Taipan, or maybe an Eastern Brown.
 
Kakadu is outside the inland taipan's distribution. Looks like a coastal taipan judging by the 'coffin' shaped head. Coastal taipans can be found in Kakadu.
 
It is a lesser black whip snake Demansia vestigiata. The head shape is not correct for either a taipan or eastern brown snake.
Cheers Cameron
 
True, at second glance I noticed that the scale count and over all look is the same as a LBWS, the scales look very similar to my YFWS and not like a Taipan.
 
looks like Denmansia papuanus, but could be vestigiata, do you have a shot of the head?
 
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