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.

HORNER'S DRAGON

Photographed in Broome, March, 2019

129                  HORNER’S DRAGON                   Lophognathus horneri  

LIZARDS                  92

Recently identified; differs from Gilbert's Dragon by white dots on the tympanum (ear-drum). Found in n and nw WA; most of NT and nw Queensland.