Red-bellied Black Snake at North Narooma, NSW
Identification history
| Pseudechis porphyriacus | 27 Nov 2018 | PatrickCampbell | ||
| Pseudechis porphyriacus | 27 Nov 2018 | PatrickCampbell | ||
| Pseudechis porphyriacus | 27 Nov 2018 | nickhopkins |
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4 comments
PatrickCampbell
wrote:
27 Nov 2018
It's probably a Red-bellied Black Snake but there's no red visible whatsoever and the image is not clear enough when blown up to clearly see any other distinguishing features. Whilst the solid black colour and body form strongly suggest a 'Red-belly', colour is not a reliable identifying feature, as some brown snakes and tiger snakes can be black and melanic forms occur in many species.
Do you have any other photos you could add?
Do you have any other photos you could add?
PatrickCampbell
wrote:
28 Nov 2018
Thanks Nick. The addition photo helps and is actually better than the first shot, as I can see the head in profile. There's something distinctively Red-belly about the form of the head in that shot and there's a very subtle indication of a brown snout that's characteristic of RBB's.
MaxCampbell
wrote:
28 Nov 2018
Hi Patrick - I agree that in form it looks like a Red-belly. I copied the image onto my hard drive and looked at it in my editor. (Faststone freeware) By resizing up from 800x600 t0 2048x1536 pixels then brightening the shadowed areas, I was able to zoom in on the belly along the snakes length and get reassuring glimpses of red.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.083777-36.195198
- Places North Narooma, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 26 Nov 2018 10:36 AM Recorded on
- nickhopkins Recorded by
Species information
- Pseudechis porphyriacus Scientific name
- Red-bellied Black Snake Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1428.4m Recorded at altitude
- 236 images trained Machine learning
