THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS, DISTRIBUTION MAPS AND INFORMATION
This site covers Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards, Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia.

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COLUBRID SNAKES - Colubridae Homalopsidae Mud Snakes

PYTHON SNAKES - Pythonidae

ELAPID SNAKES - Elapidae Cobras Coral Snakes

SEA SNAKES - Hydrophiinae Laticaudidae Sea Kraits

FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

BLIND SNAKES - Worm Snakes - Typhlopidae Ramphotyphlops

 

Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons

 

 

Elapid Snakes

 

Sea Snakes

 

File Snakes

 

Blind Snakes

 

TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines

DRAGON LIZARDS Agamas Agamidae

GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae

LEGLESS LIZARDS Pygopodidae Pygopods

MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae

SKINK LIZARDS Scincidae

CROCODILES Crocodylia Crocodilia Saltwater freshwater estuarine

Turtles Tortoises

Dragons Agamas

Geckos

 

Legless Lizards

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Skinks

 

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BANDY-BANDY
Vermicella annulata

VENOMOUS
"but unlikely to cause significant envenoming, most unlikely to be dangerous"

BANDY-BANDY Vermicella annulata
Bandy Bandy Vermicella annulata
 

BANDY-BANDY Vermicella annulata distribution map Reptiles of Australia
Bandy Bandy Vermicella annulata distribution map

BANDY-BANDY Vermicella annulata
The Bandy Bandy Vermicella annulata feeds almost entirely on Worm snakes and small Skinks.
This species spends most of its time underground or undercover, but may be seen on warm humid nights or after flooding.

Note that there are 5 species of Bandy Bandy that look superficially similar.


List of Bandy Bandy Species

Bandy Bandy

Vermicella annulata

NSW,ACT, NT, Qld, SA, Vic

Intermediate Bandy Bandy

Vermicella intermedia

NT, WA (Far north of these states)

Northern Bandy Bandy
or Narrow Banded Bandy Bandy

Vermicella multifasciata

NT, WA (Far north of these states)

Pilbara Bandy Bandy

Vermicella snelli

WA (Pilbara area)

Centralian Bandy Bandy

Vermicella vermiformis

NT (Central Australia)


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