Wild Snake

[Cellini]

Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone could identify a snake I found near my house.
Thanks in advance

 

[Ozzie Python]

diamond python

 

[saximus]

Agree Diamond. Doesn't look very yellow though...

 

[AllThingsReptile]

then you really enlarge it, it doesnt look much like a diamond, more like a carpet

 

[Red-Ink]

then you really enlarge it, it doesnt look much like a diamond, more like a carpet

Diamonds are carpet pythons... Morelia spilota spilota, just like Darwins are Morelia spilota veriegata and jungles are Morelia spilota cheynei

 

[RIXI]

then you really enlarge it, it doesnt look much like a diamond, more like a carpet

coastal perhaps?

 

[AllThingsReptile]

Diamonds are carpet pythons... Morelia spilota spilota, just like Darwins are Morelia spilota veriegata and jungles are Morelia spilota cheynei

yes i know that, im saying it looks more like a coastal or other type of carpet, and since i am no expert on the species that are in newcastle, i just left it as "carpet"

i do actually know my snakes

 

[Red-Ink]

yes i know that, im saying it looks more like a coastal or other type of carpet

i do actually know my snakes

Perhaps you should have said it looks like a coastal carpet, rather than just "more like a carpet"... you know since you do know your snakes .... You would have known that "carpet" covers the whole Morelia ssp..

 

[CamdeJong]

M.s.spilota. The dull colour's probably due to age, looks like a young snake. Spose it could be a cross between that and mcdowelli but I think Newcastle is too far South. And the patterns on the head say diamond to me.

 

[dale1988]

how big is it?

 

[AllThingsReptile]

Perhaps you should have said it looks like a coastal carpet, rather than just "more like a carpet"... you know since you do know your snakes .... You would have known that "carpet" covers the whole Morelia ssp..

yeh, ok i could have phrased my comment better

M.s.spilota. The dull colour's probably due to age, looks like a young snake. Spose it could be a cross between that and mcdowelli but I think Newcastle is too far South. And the patterns on the head say diamond to me.

the patterns are brown.....click on it twice, it will enlarge it again

 

[SamNabz]

diamond python

+1 M.s.spilota

 

[Flaviruthless]

It's a diamond, totally harmless.

 

[shellfisch]

It's a diamond, totally harmless.

+ 1

so I hope you have let it go?

 

[Cellini]

Yes we have taken it down to the bush and let it go. Thanks for all the responses. It was a cute little snake.

 

[Bez84]

Its newcastle...Diamond python definately..

 

[Wookie]

the patterns are brown.....click on it twice, it will enlarge it again

And juvy diamonds patterns are brown mate.

 

[AllThingsReptile]

diamond python it is, majority rules

 

[atothej09]

My guess Coastal Carpet Python...

 

[gillsy]

yeh, ok i could have phrased my comment better


the patterns are brown.....click on it twice, it will enlarge it again

Your phasing was right, saying "it looks more like a carpet" is correct.

Diamonds are Diamonds, carpets are carpets,

You don't go around saying a Diamond Carpet snake.