Description
Grey, brown or olive above with irregular dark cross bands (bands may be broken). Cream or greenish below with orange flush at edge of belly. Back scales strongly keeled, in 15 (rarely 17) rows at midbody.
Active both day and night. This is one of the few native vertebrates capable of eating the introduced Cane Toad, which has highly toxic skin secretions. Capable of producing a strong-smelling secretion from its anal glands when alarmed. Females lay up to 18 eggs per clutch (June).
Author credit: Patrick Couper & Andrew Amey / Queensland Museum
Habitat
Usually found in moist areas, often associated with watercourses and wetlands (open forests, wet sclerophyll and agricultural/urban settings).
Food
Carnivore
Range
Northern and eastern Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Serpentes) | | Family: | Colubridae | | Genus: | Tropidonophis | | Species: | mairii | | Common Name: | Keelback Snake |
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