Crowned Snake

Order Squamata; Suborder Serpentes; Family Elapidae; Subfamily Hydrophiinae; Scientific name: Elapognathus coronatus; Common name: Crowned Snake; Alternative common name: Western Crowned Snake – Distribution in Australia: Western Australian endemic snake confined to South-west and South-east Coastal Regions between Dongara in the north and Israelite Bay in the east, also on islands of Recherche Archipelago - Note: VENOMOUS BUT NOT CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.