Identification of snake please

[Banjo]

Hi All, I found this dead snake on a bike track in the Browns Plains area (SE QLD), roughly 20cm long. Sad thing is you can see where someone has on purpose skidded a bicycle over it.
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[Snakester]

Boiga irregularis?? That would be my guess

 

[myusername]

Looks like a keelback. Can you get a shot of the head from the side?

 

[kawasakirider]

I put a snake up to ID not so long ago. Looked like that and everyone said it was a keelback. I could be getting it confused with a rough scale, but yours looks similar to what I posted.

 

[Banjo]

View attachment 201141Here you go picture from side on.

 

[jordanmulder]

keelback

 

[Banjo]

I have just been looking on google and they are very close when looking at the keelback and brown tree snake for identifying. Would this be more difficult when they are very young?

 

[jase75]

It's a Keelback.

 

[saximus]

Are the scales "keeled"? I'd say it's definitely a keelback. BTS look quite different. Especially the eyes

 

[Snakeluvver2]

Check out that smile!

 

[Banjo]

Check out that smile!

Yeah, poor bugger is resting in peace.

 

[dihsmaj]

Keelbacks smile... but you wouldn't want to get too close to an unidentified snake that could either be smiling... or not.

 

[waruikazi]

Keelback, no doubting.

BTS don't have keeled scales, have a triangular body and clean bellies.

 

[Banjo]

Keelbacks smile... but you wouldn't want to get too close to an unidentified snake that could either be smiling... or not.

Please read the post, the poor thing was dead whem I found it, otherwisw I would not have interferred or taken photos etc.

 

[dihsmaj]

Please read the post, the poor thing was dead whem I found it, otherwisw I would not have interferred or taken photos etc.

I know, I was just saying that, Banjo.

 

[fugawi]

The line between the nostril and the eye is the laureal scale, indicating a colubrid, so not Rough Scaled Snake (Elapid), but definately a Keelback.

 

[Banjo]

I know, I was just saying that, Banjo.

No worries Plimpy, and thanks everyone for the replies. Still saddens me when I see a snake that has been killed on purpose.

 

[myusername]

It sucks mate but I would try not to worry about it too much. If it makes you feel any better there are heaps of keelbacks around! I've had to remove two from my girlfriend's place in the last two days.
I got some pretty average pics of the one from today. Unfortunately we didn't have a camera on us when we let yesterday's keelback go, it was a bright yellow/green colour. I've never seen one like it. Today's keelback was a pretty typical greyish colour, but it was super aggressive in comparison to the other's I've removed. This is just me letting today's go at a very nearby creek:

 

[snakeluvver]

Yeah definately a keelback (for once lol)
I personally find it easy to distinguish keelbacks from roughies visually without checking the loreal scale.

 

[Banjo]

We often see snakes down where we found this dead one, as there is some swamp and a creek nearby, it is great to see them but often it is just a glimpse of them as the retreat back for cover fairly quickly. Another find down the same area is large water dragons if you are quiet enough you often see them sunning themselves on logs and branches just above the creek.