What is it?

[aspidito]

Can somebody please help identify this little fella, looks like a baby western brown to me but I dont have a dead one to do a scale count, it was very agressive & very quick.
Cheers, Paul.

 

[Lewy]

Don't know what it is but it is beautiful

Lewy

 

[textilis]

bit hard to see by the pic, but look for the large overlapped rostral scale on the snout, dead give away for a nuchalis

 

[krusty]

i found a small western brown near broken hill(SA boarder)that looked sort of like that one just not as white.

 

[notechistiger]

I don't know, I just wanted to know why there was a cricket in box

 

[aspidito]

Any other takers!
Yes it is the lightest coloured snake I have ever seen apart from my albinos but it does look like a baby brown, 2 were seen the same night a couple hundred meters apart & both the same colour, the cricket just happened to be in the bin.

 

[redbellybite]

well it seems to me like a pseudonaja nuchalis,it seems to me to have a black W shape on its neck ...but if not then ONCE again Jonno has some more ammo..................lovely species so white...

 

[Jonno from ERD]

It depends on where in SA it was caught too. There's some localities where you get up to five species of Pseudonaja living sympatrically...

 

[aspidito]

Hi Jonno, Caught in Moomba, far north of SA.

 

[eipper]

Its the southern form of what was known as Pseudonaja nuchalis, now known as Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha

Cheers,
Scott

 

[jaih]

Its a cricket, Duh.

 

[kel]

lol @ jaih