Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Pseudechis porphyriacus

  • Author and date of publication

    (Shaw, 1794)

  • Preferred Common name

    Red-bellied Black Snake

  • Identified By

    Dr Jane E. Melville - Museums Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Unknown

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: Frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Heart, Preservative: ethanol 96%, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen D 74761

  • Collected By

    Raymond Hoser - Snake Busters

  • Sampling Method

    Died in captivity

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Vertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    DNA Laboratory

  • Collecting Areas

    Tissue and DNA

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Country

    Australia

  • Precise Location

    Born in captivity in Victoria -parents from Campbelltown, NSW

  • Latitude

    -34.07

  • Longitude

    150.82

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    Collector

  • Georeference Protocol

    geoscience Australia - Place names website