Narrow banded Shovel nosed Snake

Order Squamata; Suborder Serpentes; Family Elapidae; Subfamily Hydrophiinae; Scientific name: Brachyurophis fasciolatus; Common name: Narrow-banded Shovel-nosed Snake; Alternative common name: Narrow-banded Burrowing Snake – Distribution in Australia: southern half of Western Australia, most of South Australia and southernmost part of the Northern Territory, south-western Queensland and north-western New South Wales - Note: HARMLESS BURROWING SNAKE.