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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍King brown snake

Pseudechis australis (Gray, 1842)

Pseudechis australis, le Serpent de la Mulga, est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Elapidae.

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≈ 1/8th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
8.14 kg
Body length
2.75 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Everything we know about the King brown snake

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Body mass
8.14 kgrecord 2.88 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.75 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 yearsrecord 30 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
85 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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

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

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

By sex

  • Female1.3 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
  • Male1.03 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
8.1 Laverage
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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 King brown snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusPseudechis
  6. ›speciesPseudechis australis
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusPseudechis
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  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. genusPseudechis
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Mulgaschlange (de), Pseudechis australis (es), Serpent de la Mulga (fr), Pseudechis australis (it), мулга (bg), Pseudechis australis (pl) … and 14 more languages
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