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Australian snakes image gallery

Australian snakes image gallery

Australia has nearly 200 known species of snake, only 25 of which are considered potentially deadly. Explore images of Australian snakes.

Pelamis platurus

Pseudonaja textilis

Highland Copperhead, Austrelaps ramsayi

Pseudechis colletti

Pseudechis australis

Coastal Taipan, Oxyuranus scutellatus

Oxyuranus microlepidotus

Red-bellied Black Snake Pseudechis porphyriacus

Death adder snake

Notechis scutatus occidentalis

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The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

Image credit: gadigal yilimung (shield) made by Uncle Charles Chicka Madden