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Text and photos by Nick Baker, unless otherwise stated

 EcologyAsia 2008
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There are over 80 species of snake in Papua New Guinea, excluding sea snakes. There still remain many parts of the country unstudied by researchers : given time, there will be undoubtedly be further discoveries of new species. More remarkable than the species count is the diversity of colour, form and habits. The few species presented here give a tantalizing glimpse of these elusive creatures.

Blind Snakes       See also ... Snakes of Southeast Asia
           
Blind Snake
  		           
             
Boas            
         
New Guinea Ground Boa
  		  Pacific Ground Boa
  		       
             
Pythons            
       
Papuan Olive Python 
  		  Boelen's Python
  		  Green Tree Python
  		   
             
Keelbacks            
       
Many-scaled Keelback
    		  New Guinea Keelback
  		  Keelback sp. (Tabubil)
  		   
             
Cat Snakes   Forest Snakes   Crowned Snakes   Death Adders
     
Brown Cat Snake
  		  Loria Forest Snake
  		  Muller's Crowned Snake
  		  New Guinea Death Adder
 
             
Sea Snakes            
           
Olive Sea Snake
  		           
             
 


Given the importance of documenting and sharing verifiable snake sighting records in PNG, I have included details in each of these pages of the location, elevation and other details of my sightings. I have relied almost exclusively on Mark O'Shea's excellent 'Snakes Of Papua New Guinea' for hard facts. I echo Marks plea for submission of sighting records and/or photos : these can be submitted via :