MITCHELL'S SHORT-TAILED SNAKE

Photographed in Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria, January 2020

143              MITCHELL'S SHORT-TAILED SNAKE                    Parasuta nigriceps 

AUSTRALIAN SNAKES                 34

Also known as Black-backed Snake. Found across southern inland NSW and northern Victoria, through Flinder's Ranges and northern Eyre Peninsula; also WA from southern edge of Nullarbor across to Cervantes and south to Albany. Rocky hillsides, and in open woodlands, dry forests, mallee and scrubland. Nocturnal. Eats lizards, sometimes other snakes. Harmful, bites painful, causing swelling, nausea, headaches, and sometimes worse.