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REPTILE FACTS |
Description The Chappell Island Tiger Snake is the largest tiger snake and has a blunt head and robust body. The body is olive-brown to almost black, sometimes with lighter cross bands. The underside is lighter in colour. Juveniles are banded. Some authors consider this snake to be a form of Notechis scutatus.
Size 1.9m
Habitat coastal vegetation
Food Feed on mutton bird chicks. Also frogs, small mammals.
Breeding Females usually give birth to 20 - 30 live young
Range Although this snake is named after Chappell Island it is found on most of the islands of the Furneaux group of islands on the eastern side of Bass Strait . The two major islands are Flinders Island and Cape Barron Island.
Notes Highly venomous - one of Australia's most dangerous.
Classification
Class: | Reptilia | Order: | Squamata (Serpentes) | Family: | Elapidae | Genus: | Notechis | Species: | ater serventyi | Common Name: | Chappell Island Tiger Snake |
Relatives in same Genus Black Tiger Snake (N. ater) King Island Tiger Snake (N. ater humphreysi) Eastern Tiger Snake (N. scutatus)
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