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PatrickCampbell2
wrote:
12 Aug 2025
@Chakola I can see four different species in the five photographs provided. Can you please split this sighting up?
Drysdalia coronoides
PatrickCampbell2
wrote:
12 Aug 2025
You can tell it's a Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus) by the distinctive frontal scale, which is a large, squarish scale on the center of its head, roughly as wide as it is long. The face also looks like a Tiger Snake if you're very familiar with them.
Notechis scutatus
NJ
wrote:
12 Aug 2025
Thank you so much for the information and id. I have very little experience with sea snakes, so its much appreciated.
Hydrophis elegans
PatrickCampbell2
wrote:
12 Aug 2025
This is an Elegant Sea Snake (Hydrophis elegans), characterised by a greatly elongated body and deep and compressed hind part in adults. The pattern and colouration on this specimen is also consistent with this species.
Whereas, Aipysurus duboisii is usually dark purplish-brown above with a reticulated pattern over the dorsal surface.
Whereas, Aipysurus duboisii is usually dark purplish-brown above with a reticulated pattern over the dorsal surface.
Hydrophis elegans
Significant sightings
- Hoplocephalus stephensii at Pappinbarra, NSW
- Demansia psammophis at Paddys River, ACT
- Parasuta dwyeri at Bonner, ACT
- Parasuta dwyeri at Googong, NSW
- Parasuta dwyeri at Lake George, NSW
- Parasuta dwyeri at Williamsdale, NSW
- Parasuta dwyeri at Cooma, NSW
- Demansia psammophis at Kambah, ACT
- Parasuta flagellum
- Demansia psammophis at Uriarra Village, ACT
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