Wednesday, September 18, 2019

DE VIS' BANDED SNAKE

Photographed at Lake Houdraman, Quilpie, Queensland, September 2019

129                  DE VIS' BANDED SNAKE                  Denisonia devisi

SNAKES                     28

Also known as Mud Adder.  Favours cracks in clay baked soil on moist alluvial flats vegetated with woodlands or scrublands, particularly lignum and brigalow. Preys on frogs, geckos. Potentially dangerous. Critically endangered in Victoria, where there are a small pocket; otherwise found in central south Queensland and c entree northern NSW.






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