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farmerjoe

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Hello everyone. We live on a wooded property in the hills West of Lismore, Far Northern NSW. We often see, and have become friends with carpet pythons. Recently however my wife has found a 'different' snake skin in her craft room. Can anyone help with its identification?? At first we thought it might be a brown snake, which we often see in the paddocks here, but the scale count is wrong.

The skin is 1.5M long. Scale count in the middle is 21. Caudal scales are divided and count 75 from the anus to the (almost) tip. Any ideas anyone?
 
That would worry me if I found a snake skin in my house. What types of carpet snakes do you get around the house?

Post a picture up of the skin.
 
coastal taipans have divided subcaudals 45-80 and midbodies 21-23

bit low down, but they are found in northern nsw
 
farmer Joe,

Brown tree Snake,

Cheers,
Scott
 
The characteristic that makes this ID so obvious is the hexagonal row of vertebral scales, which is also shared with Dendrelaphis. Boiga's have a higher midbody scale count though.
 
cool, didnt know that, thought their subcaudals were much higher
 
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