Brown snake
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Brown snake is the common name given to a number of very different species of snakes:
- The genus PseudonajaPseudonajaPseudonaja is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to Australia. Members are known commonly as brown snakes and are considered to be one of the most dangerous snakes in the country; even young snakes are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human.- Species :* Dugite or Spotted...
, Australian brown snakes - The genus StoreriaStoreriaStoreria is a genus of colubrid snakes. The genus consists of four species, three of which are known as brown snakes, and the other is known as the redbelly snake. They are found primarily in the United States and Mexico but range as far north as southern Canada, and as far south as Central America...
, North American brown snakes
- The species Elapognathus minor, the Australian short-nosed, or little brown, snake
- The species Pseudechis australisPseudechis australisPseudechis australis, the common King Brown, Mulga snake or Pilbara cobra, is a species of venomous snake found in Australia. It is one of the longest venomous snakes in the world and the second longest in Australia...
, the Australian mulga, or king brown, snake