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Pseudonaja textilis Werrington Sydney 2023. g🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Eastern brown snake

Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Die Östliche Braunschlange (Pseudonaja textilis), auch Gewöhnliche Braunschlange oder Östliche Braunotter, ist eine in Australien und Neuguinea vorkommende Giftnatter aus der Gattung der Braunschlangen (Pseudonaja).

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Measurements
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≈ 1/37th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.68 kg
Body length
2.2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern brown snake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.68 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
2.2 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
1.02 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.1 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
  • Male1.02 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
1.7 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eastern brown snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusPseudonaja
  6. ›speciesPseudonaja textilis
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusPseudonaja
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusPseudonaja
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In other languages
Pseudonaja textilis (fr), Pseudonaja textilis (pt), източна псевдоная (bg), idänruskokäärme (fi), Östliche Braunschlange (de), Doğu kahverengi yılanı (tr) … and 16 more languages
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