A Listing of Australian Colubrid and Mud Snakes
Distribution Key

THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS, DISTRIBUTION MAPS AND INFORMATION
Covering Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia

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Last Updated January 17, 2013

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Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons Elapid Snakes Sea Snakes File Snakes Blind Snakes Turtles Tortoises Dragons Agamas Geckos Legless Lizards Monitor Lizards Skinks Crocodiles

SERPENTES (SNAKES)

Family Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes)

Family Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes)


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Family
Scientific Name
Common Name
Distribution
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Boiga fusca (or fuscus) now Boiga irregularis *Night Tiger Snake NT,Qld,WA
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Boiga irregularis *Brown Tree Snake NSW,NT,Qld,WA
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Dendrelaphis calligaster *Northern Tree Snake Qld
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Dendrelaphis punctulata Common or Green (or Golden) Tree Snake NSW,NT,Qld,WA
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Stegonotus cucullata Slatey-Grey Snake NT,Qld
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Stegonotus parvus Slate-Brown Snake Qld (Murray Island)
Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Tropidonophis mairii *Keelback or Freshwater Snake NSW,NT,Qld,WA
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Cerberus rhynchops *Bockadam NT,Qld,WA
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Enhydris polylepis Macleay's Water Snake NT,Qld
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Fordonia leucobalia White-Bellied Mangrove Snake NT,Qld,WA
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Lycodon capucinus Wolf Snake CI
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Myron resetari (split from richardsonii) *Resetar's Mangrove Snake WA
Homalopsidae (Mud Snakes) Myron richardsonii Richardson's Mangrove Snake NT,Qld,WA

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DISTRIBUTION KEY
Click on the abbreviation below to see a map of the area
CI = Christmas Island
CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island
NSW = New South Wales
NT = Northern Territory
Qld = Queensland
SA = South Australia
Tas = Tasmania
Vic = Victoria
WA = Western Australia

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