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Gold Coast Snake Catcher provides the number for a reliable snake catcher in your area. Only snake catchers who provide a 24 hr snake removal service are referred to within the Gold Coast areas. These catchers are fully licensed and comprehensively insured and have demonstrated experience conducting snake removal activities. Contact the number below for your Gold Coast snake catcher.
The suburbs of Mount Nathan, Maudsland, Clagiraba, Guanaba and Tamborine Mountain form part of the lowland and foothill country associated with the Gold Coast Hinterland. The snake catcher for Mount Nathan, Maudsland, Clagiraba, Guanaba and Tamborine Mountain often encounters species which are less prevalent in more coastal suburbs due to the diversity of vegetative structures and subsequent variability in habitat profiles. Brown Tree Snakes are found throughout the Gold Coast but these suburbs typically turn up more of this highly arboreal and easily recognised species
With the Gold Coast Snake Catcher having attended to dozens of calls in this area we look to provide you with a rapid response here possible to assist with your snake encounter. It is imperative in all circumstances that the snake is watched at all times, or if the snake is no longer visible the vicinity in which it was last seen is carefully monitored.
The following list is of all species of elapid (venomous land snakes) known to have been reliably recorded within the Gold Coast Region, including the Hinterland and immediately adjacent areas to the west. These records include actual museum specimens lodged in collections or those recorded by well-respected experts in the field of snake taxonomy and subsequent identification.
Species Name | Scientific Name | Captured | Likely to occur or recorded |
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Eastern Brown Snake | Pseudonaja textilis | Y | Recorded |
Red-bellied Black Snake | Pseudechis porphyriacus | Y | Recorded |
Yellow-faced Whip Snake | Demansia psammophis | Y | Recorded |
Spotted Black Snake | Pseudechis guttatus | N | Unlikely |
Rough-scaled Snake | Tropidechis carinatus | N | Unlikely |
Stephens Banded Snake | Hoplocephalus stephensii | N | Unlikely |
White Crowned Snake | Cacophis harriettae | Y | Recorded |
Dwarf Crowned Snake | Cacophis krefftii | P | Possible |
Golden Crowned Snake | Cacophis squamulosus | P | Possible |
Eastern Small-eyed Snake | Cryptophis nigrescens | Y | Recorded |
Marsh Snake | Hemiaspis signata | Y | Recorded |
Death Adder | Acanthophis antarcticus | N | Unlikely |
Coastal Taipan | Oxyuranus scutellatus | N | Unlikely |
Bandy Bandy | Vermicella annulata | N | Possible |
Red-naped Snake | Furina diadema | N | Unlikely |
Pale-headed Snake | Hoplocephalus bitorquatus | N | Unlikely |
Tiger Snake | Notechis scutatus | N | Unlikely |
captured by the snake catcher Gold Coast or likely to occur in one or more these localities
The following list is of all non-venomous snake species known to have been reliably recorded within the Gold Coast Region, including the Hinterland and immediately adjacent areas to the west. These records include actual museum specimens lodged in collections or those recorded by well-respected experts in the field of snake taxonomy and subsequent identification. Snake families represented here include:
Species Name | Scientific Name | Captured | Likely to occur or recorded |
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Carpet Python | Morelia spilota mcdowelli | Y | Recorded |
Spotted Python | Antaresia maculosa | N | Unlikely |
Common Tree Snake | Dendrelaphis punctulata | Y | Recorded |
Brown Tree Snake | Boiga irregularis | Y | Recorded |
Keelback Snake | Tropidonophis mairii | Y | Recorded |
Blind Snake | Ramphotyphlops sp. | Y | Recorded |
This Carpet Python caught in Maudsland on the Gold Coast was a regular visitor to a property backing on to thick bushland. This species is commonly found in residential properties particularly in the Gold Coast and Brisbane region. This snake was found underneath leaf litter at the base of a tree where it was successfully captured and subsequently released. The snake was successfully relocated within 40 minutes of the call being dispatched and released into suitable refugia.