Description
Pseudechis Australis Snake Venom | Mulga Snake Venom | King Brown Snake Venom:
Pseudechis Australis Snake Venom | Mulga Snake Venom | King Brown Snake Venom is extracted from a snake called Pseudechis Australis.
More details about Pseudechis Australis Snake Venom | Mulga Snake Venom | King Brown Snake Venom:
| Purity | > 99 % |
| Form | Lyophilized Powder |
| Packaging | In vacuum sealed glass vials, in secured parcel. |
Taxonomic Classification:
| Name | Pseudechis Australis |
| Common Name(s) | Dugite Snake, King Brown Snake |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Reptilia |
| Order | Squamata |
| Suborder | Serpentes |
| Family | Elapidae |
| Genus | Pseudechis |
| Species | P. australis |
About Pseudechis Australis Snake:
The king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) is a species of highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae, native to northern, western, and Central Australia.
Despite its common name, it is a member of the genus Pseudechis (black snakes) and only distantly related to true brown snakes.
Its alternative common name is the mulga snake, although it lives in many habitats apart from mulga.
First described by English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1842, it is a robust snake up to 3.3 m (11 ft) long.
It is variable in appearance, with individuals from northern Australia having tan upper parts, while those from southern Australia are dark brown to blackish. Sometimes, it is seen in a reddish-green texture.
The dorsal scales are two-toned, sometimes giving the snake a patterned appearance. Its underside is cream or white, often with orange splotches.
The species is oviparous. The snake is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, though may have declined with the spread of the cane toad.
Its venom is not as potent as those of Australia’s other dangerous snakes, but can still cause severe effects if delivered in large enough quantities.
Its main effect is on striated muscle tissue, causing paralysis from muscle damage, and also commonly affects blood clotting (coagulopathy).
Often, extensive pain and swelling occur, rarely with necrosis, at the bite site. Deaths from its bites have been recorded, with the most recent being in 1969.
Its victims are treated with black snake (not brown snake) antivenom.
Taxonomy:
The species was first described by English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1842 from a specimen collected at Port Essington in the Northern Territory. Gray saw little distinction from the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) in his single preserved specimen—excepting the variation in ocular plates—and assigned the name Naja australis.
Description:
Scalation:
The number and arrangement of scales on a snake’s body are key elements of identification to species level.
Distribution and habitat:
King brown snakes occur in all states of Australia except for Victoria and Tasmania. It has become rare or vanished from parts of coastal Queensland.
Behaviour:
The king brown snake is mostly crepuscular—active at dusk, and is less active during the middle of the day and between midnight and dawn, retiring to crevices in the soil, old animal burrows, or under rocks or logs.
During warmer months, its activity shifts to later after dusk and into the evening. Across its range, it is more active during the day in cooler climates and at night in hotter climates.
Reproduction:
The breeding season begins with males engaging in wrestling combat, each attempting to push the other over for the right to mate with a female.
Mating follows—in the early Southern Hemisphere spring in southwest Western Australia, mid-spring in the Eyre Peninsula, and with the wet season in the north of the country.
The species is oviparous, with one unverified claim of viviparity.
Females produce a clutch of four to 19 eggs, averaging around 10, with longer females laying larger clutches, generally 39 to 45 days after mating has taken place.
Eggs take about 70 to 100 days to hatch. The incubating temperature has been recorded as between 22 and 32 °C (72 and 90 °F).
The eggs average 40.1 mm (1+5⁄8 in) in length by 22.9 mm (7⁄8 in) in width and weigh 13.1 g (0.46 oz) each. Baby snakes average 22.6 cm (8+7⁄8 in) in length and weigh 9.4 g (0.33 oz) on hatching.
King brown snakes have been reported to live up to 25 years in captivity.
Diet:
The king brown snake is a generalist predator, preying on frogs, lizards including small monitors, skinks, geckos and agamids, other snakes including whip snakes, brown snakes, the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis), southern shovel-nosed snake (Brachyurophis semifasciatus),
Gould’s hooded snake (Parasuta gouldii) and crowned snake (Elapognathus coronatus), birds such as thornbills, and small mammals such as rodents and dasyurids. and spiders such as the infamous funnel web spiders, mouse spiders and tarantulas.
The species has been reported eating roadkill, as well as the sloughed skins of other reptiles, and is known to exhibit cannibalism.
Specimens in captivity have been observed eating their own faeces. It is opportunistic, eating a higher proportion of frogs in wetter areas.
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