Eastern Brown Snake

Pseudonaja reptile  or we say the eastern brown snake, is a species of genus Pseudonaja. This snake is considered as the second most venomous land snake based on its lethal dose of a 50 percent of value. It's native to Australia, Papua New Guinea as well as Indonesia.

 

The eastern brown snake mainly is found in the East coast of Australia, from the tip of Cape York, along the coasts and inland ranges of Queens land, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The Adult eastern brown snake are highly variable in it's colour. Whilst usually a uniform shade of brown. They have various patterns which includes speckles and bands and range from a very pale colour through to black including orange, silver, yellow and grey.

 

Juveniles can be banded and have a black head, with a lighter band behind, a black nape and numerous red - brown spots in its stomach. These species has an average length of 1.1 - 1.8 metres. The maximum recorded sizes of the species is 2.4 meters, although any specimen of a grater than 2 metres in length can be considered exceptionally large. The venom of this eastern brown snake is known to cause diarrhea, collapse, dizziness, relanl failure, convulsions, paralysis as well as cardiac arrest. Without medical treatments, this snake bite can be fatal. The eastern brown snake which is being an opportunistic feeder, consumes almost any vertebrate animal, including frogs, lizards, birds, rodents or other small snakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by Kaushalya De Silva

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