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FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

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Selection of Australian Frogs

TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines

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GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae

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MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae

Skinks of Australia

CROCODILES Crocodylia Crocodilia Saltwater freshwater estuarine

REPTILES OF THE WORLD SPECIES LISTS


A Listing of Australian File Snakes
Distribution Key


SERPENTES (SNAKES)
Family Acrochordidae (File Snakes)


PYGMY PYTHON or ANT HILL PYTHON Antaresia perthensis



COMMON
NAME

SCIENTIFIC
NAME

DISTRIBUTION

Arafura File Snake

Acrochordus arafurae

Australia (NT, Qld), eastern Indonesia, New Guinea

Little File Snake

Acrochordus granulatus

Australia (NT, Qld, WA),
China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.
New Guinea, Solomon Islands

 

DISTRIBUTION KEY
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CI = Christmas Island

CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island

NSW = New South Wales

NT = Northern Territory

Qld = Queensland

SA = South Australia

Tas = Tasmania

Vic = Victoria

WA = Western Australia

NI = Norfolk Island

LHI = Lord Howe Island

ACT = Australian Capital Territory
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)


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File Snakes of the World

File Snakes of Australia

Qld FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

NORTHERN TERRITORY

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae

File Snakes
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File Snakes
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File
Snakes
of Qld

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Snakes
of NT

File
Snakes
of WA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE SPECIES LISTS BY STATE OR TERRITORY

Reptiles of South Australia
REPTILES OF VICTORIA
 REPTILES OF NSW REPTILES OF QUEENSLAND REPTILES OF NORTHERN TERRITORY REPTILES OF Western Australia Reptiles of the ACT(Canberra)

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Selection of Australian Frogs

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Frogs
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Amphibians of the
World


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