by Peter Rowland | Tuesday, October 27, 2020
File Snakes (Family: Acrochordidae) File snakes are totally aquatic fish-eating snakes, characterised by their loose, baggy skin covered with coarse scales. File snakes produce live young. Two species are found in Australia. The Arafura File Snake (Acrochordus...
by Peter Rowland | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Snakes (Suborder: serpentes) Snakes, of the suborder Serpentes, form the second largest group of reptiles after the lizards, containing just over a third of the world’s currently known species. While Australia has less than 10 per cent of these species, it is home to...
