Melbourne's Snakes

Hi res. downloads
Below are thumbnail images of the seven species of snake that occur in the Melbourne area.
The thumbnails can be clicked on for the hi res. version, for republication PROVIDED that the original source (Raymond Hoser and "smuggled.com") are cited at the same time and place as publication.
To view the same images as "normal sized" photos on a webpage and with information on each species, click on the link underneath the Hi-res. links (near bottom of webpage).

Melbourne's Snakes
(in descending order of venom toxicity per bite).

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject.TIGER SNAKE Notechis scutatus (Peters, 1861)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject.EASTERN BROWN SNAKE Pseudonaja textilis (Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril, 1854)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject. COPPERHEAD Austrelaps superbus (Gunther, 1858)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject. BLACK SNAKE Pseudechis porphyriacus (Shaw, 1794)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject.SMALL EYED SNAKE Cryptophis nigrescens (Gunther, 1862)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species and see an image of the species as published elsewhere.LITTLE WHIP SNAKE Unechis spectabilis (McCoy, 1878)

Click here to download the hi res. image of this species as published in a definitive book on the subject.WHITE LIPPED SNAKE Drysdalia coronoides (Gunther, 1858)

For low res. image downloads of the above snake species and general information about each (from an Australia-wide perspective).

For the most detailed paper on all Melbourne's snakes ever published, with a Melbourne perspective.