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 species presented here give a tantalizing glimpse of these elusive creatures.

 See also ... Snakes of SE Asia
 

Blind Snakes  (Typhlopidae)

Boas  (Boidae)

Blind Snake				New Guinea Ground Boa		Pacific Ground Boa

Pythons  (Pythonidae)

Papuan Olive Python		D'Albertis Python		Boelen's Python		Green Tree Python

Keelbacks, Cat Snakes etc.  (Colubridae)

Many-scaled Keelback		New Guinea Keelback		Keelback sp. (Tabubil)		Brown Cat Snake

Forest Snakes, Crowned Snakes, Death Adders etc.  (Elapidae)

Loria Forest Snake		Muller's Crowned Snake		New Guinea Death Adder

			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 :
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