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Warning Slightly Dangerous
Scientific Name: Demansia psammophis
Common Names: Yellow faced whip snake, Also rerred to as grass snake, but this is a vague term.
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Distribution: East coast of Australia from Cairns to Jervis bay, inland northwest Victoria, South Australia and southern Western Australia. Other species of whipsnake exst in mainland Australia in many of the areas where this snake is absent.
Habitat: Dry open areas, open forest, woodland, grassland. Common around suburban homes.
Field Notes: Length up to 70 cm. Long oval head, slender neck. Yellow ring around eye. Toxicity is low, but bites are extremely painful, and should receive treatment, especially in children and the elderly. Fast active hunter, may enter houses. Midbody scales 15 rows. >60 divided subcaudal scales. Divided anal scale.
Distinctive facial markings allow ready identification. This specimen ran afoul of dogs.
Scientific Name: Demansia psammophis
Common Names: Yellow faced whip snake, Also rerred to as grass snake, but this is a vague term.
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Distribution: East coast of Australia from Cairns to Jervis bay, inland northwest Victoria, South Australia and southern Western Australia. Other species of whipsnake exst in mainland Australia in many of the areas where this snake is absent.
Habitat: Dry open areas, open forest, woodland, grassland. Common around suburban homes.
Field Notes: Length up to 70 cm. Long oval head, slender neck. Yellow ring around eye. Toxicity is low, but bites are extremely painful, and should receive treatment, especially in children and the elderly. Fast active hunter, may enter houses. Midbody scales 15 rows. >60 divided subcaudal scales. Divided anal scale.
Distinctive facial markings allow ready identification. This specimen ran afoul of dogs.
