Warning Poisionous
Scientific Name: Notechis scutatus
Common Name: Eastern Tiger Snake
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Other Names: Mainland Tiger Snake
Distribution: South East Queensland, East of New South Wales and most of Victoria
Habitat: Wide range of habitats, from rainforest to dry schlerophyll forest, and river floodplains in the south of its range.
Field Notes: The Eastern Tiger Snake is light brown to greyish in colour and sometimes even olive in colour with paler cross bands. Its underparts are cream to yellow in colour.
This species has many similar species such as a juvenile Eastern Brown Snake. It can be distinguished from this species by the absence of a black patch on the back of its head. (Source)
Frogs are a popular food source for the Eastern Tiger snake but also eats many other smaller vertibrate animals. Like most snakes it will flee when disturbed but will not hesitate to strike when cornered or confronted.
Image By Blake - 2011 - Location: Australia Zoo
Scientific Name: Notechis scutatus
Common Name: Eastern Tiger Snake
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Other Names: Mainland Tiger Snake
Distribution: South East Queensland, East of New South Wales and most of Victoria
Habitat: Wide range of habitats, from rainforest to dry schlerophyll forest, and river floodplains in the south of its range.
Field Notes: The Eastern Tiger Snake is light brown to greyish in colour and sometimes even olive in colour with paler cross bands. Its underparts are cream to yellow in colour.
This species has many similar species such as a juvenile Eastern Brown Snake. It can be distinguished from this species by the absence of a black patch on the back of its head. (Source)
Frogs are a popular food source for the Eastern Tiger snake but also eats many other smaller vertibrate animals. Like most snakes it will flee when disturbed but will not hesitate to strike when cornered or confronted.
Image By Blake - 2011 - Location: Australia Zoo
