#1771 · 🦎 reptiles

Eastern Brown Snake

🇳🇱 Eastern brown snake ·Pseudonaja textilis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Matt · CC BY 4.0
2. © Graham Armstrong · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Matthew Connors · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Hermit · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Josh Vido · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Rod Lowther · CC BY 4.0
7. Swan Reach Conservation Park, SA, AU:© Ellura Sanctuary · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Brisbane QLD, Australia:© FreckLes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Sugarloaf Ward, Christmas Hills, VIC, AU:© blacklabrador · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. South Australia, AU:© kenty_8881 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The eastern brown snake ( Pseudonaja textilis ), often referred to as the common brown snake , is a species of venomous elapid snake of the genus Pseudonaja native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. Considered the world's second-most venomous land snake based on its LD50 value (subcutaneous) in mice, it is responsible for about 60% of snake-bite deaths in Australia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,409iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,409 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1858 (168 years ago).