Centralian/Brendl's Carpet Python

of Central Australia

Morelia bredii

Harmless

Photographed at Armadale Reptile Centre in Perth

I am unsure if this is a distinct species or a subspecies of the Carpet python and I am also unsure if you will find this snake in Western Australia but we will give it its own page here.

Like its name suggests it is found in the center of Australia. Around the area where WA, SA and NT borders cross.

 It lives in rock crevices, Red- river Gum tree hollows and caves in subtropical to warm desert ranges.

The Red gums are found along water ways and provide  hollow logs.

It is approx 2.2m long in the body with a 40cm tail.

This snake is not commonly found.

Photographed at Armadale Reptile Centre in Perth

This is a photograph from the Great Central Road where this snake could be found.

Clutches of 13-47 eggs.  Like most other pythons this python coils itself around its eggs for incubation and the female will not eat during this time.

What does it eat?

Small mammals and birds that are either in striking range or are found trapped and constricted in tree hollows.  The central area is rich with many marsupials and reptiles.

An animal this snake may have eaten in the past, when they were abundant, was the Mala or Rufous Hare wallaby photographed here at the Alice Springs Desert Park.

Centralian Carpet Python

Southern Carpet Python from
 Dryandra woodlands in the wheatbelt.

Text;
CD Rom "Australian Reptiles and Frogs" by Herald Ehnann and Micheal Tyler.
"Australian Reptiles A Photographic Reference to the Terrestrial Reptiles of Australia" by Stephen K Wilson, David G Knowles.

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