demansia vestigiata

Can someone confirm, or correct, an ID on this snake. It was found in Proserpine, Qld and is about 150mm long. My thought is that it is a juvenile Black Whip Snake, but i am not sure.

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

Hi everyone, We live on acreage, in the hills in the Noosa Hinterland, QLD. We have 2 dogs that we usually let roam in the garden area now that the weather has cooled down. Yesterday, as my hubby was playing with the dogs, he saw something close to the fire pit that looked like a snake. So he...

my friend sent me this what could it be sorry for bad photos.

Hey Everyone I was looking at my feed on Facebook and a friend of mine was tagged in this photo ( not the one holding the snake ). The guy said its a common tree snake but I strongly disagree I'm not trying to name and shame him on his I.D skill but I told him to be careful in picking up animals...

Hey, i have been looking for a while now if there is a report or scientific paper of all the recorded confirmed fatalities on records for particular sp. of elapids. all help will be great Cheers

Come across a couple of snakes and not sure of the species I live in Mackay QLD see if this works

While doing my regular toad patrol at home tonight I took some photos of other night prowlers. Slaty-greys are out all year round mostly getting into the fish (natives) in my ponds. I've seen up to 4 different individuals in a night, but mostly only 1 or 2. The Night Tigers are less...

G'Day All, Just hoping someone who knows a lot more than me might be able to have a look at these pics and identify the snake species. Was found in my backyard in Mackay, Central Queensland. I am only curious as I have a young daughter who often plays in the yard. I am thinking possibly a...

Salutations forumites, First a few warnings. There is quite a lot of text in this post as a consequence of the amount of material. Feel free to skip it and look at the pretty pictures if you please. Also, the photos in this post were taken with both a Canon DSLR and an Olympus point-and-shoot...

Ok, so I was talking to a mate of mine and flicking through the elapid thread, and it got me wondering, how many female ven keepers are actually out there? That actually own them on their license and not just their other halves owning them etc...? And got into keeping hots, on their own accord...

ive been told that the eastern brown is the most aggressive snake in australia, but some tell me its others, but personally i think its the eastern brown, i just wanted to know from the experts:D cheers malik

Now i found this today on my golf co**** (Dent island, Whitsundays) it had been dead for a couple of days ( ate a skink that was too big and the skink stuck a leg out through its guts). It was had been damaged by ants, no eyes etc. about 2 foot long As wide as an average persons index...

I've just returned from a trip to the Gulf of Carpentaria, north of Mount Isa. I think the highlights were the olive pythons (we found two) and Cryptoblepharus zoticus (Cryptoblepharus is my favourite skink genus), plus the bats. Species marked with an asterisk (*) are ones which I hadn't...

Went looking for snakes with naivepom and found a couple, though no water pythons :( I quite liked the brown tree snake, I was surprised with how big it was (didn't realise bts's got that big) Could someone also ID the first snake?

Copied from my blog. -- Day seven saw us heading inland, from The Caves on the coast, through Emerald and up to Charters Towers. It was mainly a driving day, but we did find some roadkill along the way. We got some rooms at the Charters Towers pub and then headed out for a night drive...

Hi, all just wanting to see people's most wanted australian python(or already have in some cases) Mine would have to be: 1) Woma 2) Diamond 3) BHP

Hi everyone, i'm new to this site. i wanted to know if anyone can help identify this snake for me? my dad has been seeing them around his shed lately and we're wondering if they particularly dangerous and should be avoided. it is about 40cm long so i think its a hatchling, all the ones we've...

Im not asking for your herping spots where you have seen Tiger Snakes, Im just wanting to know how common/rare they are here? Would it be like trying to find a Coastal Taipan here? In one of my herp books, it names a few spots here on the coast, but am yet to try them out, Tigers are one of my...

Im interested to know how many different species of Aust. snakes u have seen in the wild???? Iv seen 12 different species,Brown Snake,Tiger Snake,RBBS,Copperhead,Blind Snake(Proximus), Dwyers Snake, Yellow face whip Snake, Small eyed Snake, Red Naped Snake, Brown tree Snake, Carpet and diamond...

excuse the crappy pics, i used the phone cos it was handy at the time.

Now everyone knows that in some locations the territories of coastal carpets and diamond pythons overlap,( resulting in breeding and offspring of natural intergrades, Port Macs ect.) There was a thread about someone selling a Broadheaded crossed with a Stephen's banded on herp trader...

We received the following letter from a non-member. Can anyone help them out? "Dear sir/madam My family and I live on a property west of Toowoomba, Qld. Recently we spotted a large snake that we were unable to identify between us. We were wondering if you could assist us by shedding...

Hi all, I am currently looking for information on the clinical effects of bites by a range of snake species including: Demansia papuensis and Demansia vestigiata (black whipsnakes) Rhinoplocephalus nigrostriatus (black-striped snake) or any other Rhinoplocephalus spp. Furina tristis...