Black Snakes (Pseudechis spp.)

This page is about the true black snakes, in the genus Pseudechis. To find information on the taipan species known in some areas as the "yellow-bellied black snake", click here.

Included in the black snake genus are such dangerous snakes as Collett's snake, the Papuan black snake and the mulga snake. The last of these is sometimes called the king brown snake.

Black snakes