#simoselaps

Jan’s Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi), family Elapidae, WA, Australia

Venomous.

West Coast Banded Snake aka Coastal Burrowing Snake (Simoselaps littoralis), family Elapidae, Kalbarri, WA, Australia

Mildly venomous.

Jan’s Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi), family Elapidae, WA, Australia

Venomous.

Jan’s Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi), family Elapidae, Pernatty Lagoon, SA, Australia

Venomous.

Jan's Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi), family Elapidae, Pernatty Lagoon, SA, Australia

Venomous.

Jan’s Banded Snake - Simoselaps bertholdi

Also referred to as Southern Desert Banded Snake, Simoselaps bertholdi (Elapidae) is a venomous snake endemic to Australia. It has a body cream, yellowish or reddish-orange above, the individual scales edged behind with darker reddish-brown, and with numerous black cross-bands along the length of the body. The average total length of this snake is about 30 cm.

It is a nocturnal, secretive and fossorial, snake. Active on the surface only at night. Although regarded as venomous, the venom and clinical effects of this snake are unknown, but it is considered that is unlikely to cause significant envenoming, most unlikely to be dangerous to humans.

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Black-striped Snake  (Western Black-striped Snake, Black-striped Burrowing Snake)

Simoselaps calonotus, Syn. Neelaps calonotus (Elapidae), the Black-striped Snake, is a Near Threatened species endemic to Western Australia.

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