Pseudonaja

4 species

The list of species of Pseudonaja genus

Pseudonaja is a genus of highly venomous elapid snakes native to Australia. Species of this genus are known commonly as brown snakes and are considered to be some of the most dangerous snakes in the world; even young snakes are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human.

Despite its common name, the king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) is not a brown snake, but a member of the genus Pseudechis, commonly known as black snakes.

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The list of species of Pseudonaja genus

Despite its common name, the king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) is not a brown snake, but a member of the genus Pseudechis, commonly known as black snakes.

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Eastern Brown Snake

Pseudonaja textilis

The Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) is a species of highly venomous snake native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It was first described by André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril in 1854. The Eastern brown...

Dugite

Pseudonaja affinis

The dugite (Pseudonaja affinis ) is a species of venomous, potentially lethal, snake native to Western Australia, a member of the family Elapidae. The word 'dugite' is an anglicisation of names for the snake in some dialects of the Nyungar language,...

Northern Brown Snake

Pseudonaja nuchalis

The Northern brown snake (Pseudonaja nuchalis) is a species of very fast, highly venomous elapid snake native to Australia. The other common name of this species is gwardar and means "go the long way around" in an Aboriginal language.

Pseudonaja mengdeni

The western brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni ) is commonly known as Mengden's brown snake, and alternatively, gwardar.Pseudnaja mengdeni is endemic to Australia. It is highly variable in colour and patterns and is a highly dangerous elapid whose...