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The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It was first described by André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril in 1854. The ...
The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) is the most toxic member of the genus and is considered by some to be the second-most venomous land snake in the world, after the inland taipan (which is also found in Australia). The western brown snake is the 10th-most venomous snake in the world. Brown snakes can easily harm pet animals and ...
The strap-snouted brown snake (Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. [2] P. aspidorhyncha is part of a species complex that also includes P. mengdeni and P. nuchalis; all were formerly included in the latter species. [3]
The ringed brown snake (Pseudonaja modesta) is a species of venomous elapid snake native to a broad swathe of inland Australia, from western New South Wales and Queensland to Western Australia. [2] Albert Günther described it as Cacophis modesta in 1872, from specimens collected in northwestern Australia. [3]
The peninsula brown snake (Pseudonaja inframacula) is a species of venomous elapid snake native to South Australia. [1] References
Pseudonaja mengdeni has highly dangerous venom neurotoxic and haemotoxic [3] and can cause severe symptoms resulting in death. [4] Mengden's brown snake is considered dangerously venomous. [10] Antivenom used in case of envenoming is the brown snake Antivenom [11] If bitten first aid must be applied and medical attention sought.
Ingram's brown snake grows to 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) in total length (including tail). It has a grey-brown to dark brown head and nape, black-brown to golden brown upper parts. [ 6 ] It has 17 rows of dorsal scales at midbody, 190 to 220 ventral scales, 55 to 70 divided subcaudal scales (occasionally some of the anterior ones are undivided), and a ...
English zoologist Hampton Wildman Parker described the speckled brown snake as Demansia guttata in 1926 from a specimen collected in Winton, Queensland. [1] The brown snakes were moved to Pseudonaja by Australian naturalist Eric Worrell in the early 1960s on the basis of skull morphology, and reinforced by American herpetologist Samuel Booker McDowell in 1967 on the basis of the muscles of the ...