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Western brown snake |
Leinster, Western Australia Photo © Jordan Vos |
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Pseudonaja mengdeni | ||||||
Pronunciation | SUE-doh-NAY-ah MENG-den-ee | |||||
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Etymology |
Pseudonaja: 'false Naja', after a genus of cobra.
mengdeni: presumably after G. Mengden. |
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Other names |
Mengden's brown snake
Gwardar |
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DescriptionGeneral occurs in one of two colour forms: orange with black head, or 'pale head, grey nape'.1 Similar species
Northern brown snake (Pseudonaja nuchalis) - P. mengdeni typically exhibits fewer dorsal scale rows at the level of the first ventral (19-24 rows) and one head length posterior to the occiput (17-19 rows) than P. nuchalis; snout is rounded in P. mengdeni, chisel-shaped in P. nuchalis1 Taxonomic notes
This species was described by Wells & Wellington in 1985.2
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