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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 toxic 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 livestock.
Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) The eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) has a venom LD 50 value of 0.053 mg SC (Brown, 1973) and a value of 0.0365 mg SC (Ernst and Zug et al. 1996). Average venom yield is 2–6 mg (Meier and White, 1995).
The brown snake, which experts call the dekay from its latin name Storeria dekayi, is “the most victimized snake in our area,” Chavis said. Homeowners think these snakes, which can grow to ...
Common tiger snake; Down's tiger snake; Eastern tiger snake; King Island tiger snake; Krefft's tiger snake; Peninsula tiger snake; Tasmanian tiger snake; Western tiger snake; Tigre snake; Tree snake. Blanding's tree snake; Blunt-headed tree snake; Brown tree snake; Long-nosed tree snake; Many-banded tree snake; Northern tree snake; Trinket ...
A snake catcher in Queensland witnessed what he described as “one of the best defensive displays” ever seen when he was called to remove an eastern brown snake from a Sunshine Coast home ...
The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis), also known as the brown catsnake, is an arboreal rear-fanged colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi to Papua), Papua New Guinea, and many islands in northwestern Melanesia. The snake is slender, in order to facilitate climbing, and can reach up to 2 ...
A man from Adelaide, Australia, recently returned home from a trip to find a venomous eastern brown snake had started living in his house while he was gone. The man believes his pet cat tried to ...