Species profile—Cerberus australis (bockadam)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Colubridae (colubrid snakes) → Cerberus australis (bockadam)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Colubridae (colubrid snakes)
- Scientific name
- Cerberus australis (Gray, 1842)
- Common name
- bockadam
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1842). Monographic Synopsis of the Water Snakes, or the Family of Hydridae. The Zoological Miscellany, 59-68.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 524
- Synonym(s)
- Cerberus rynchops
Cerberus rynchops novaeguineae
Homalopsis australis
Cerberus rynchops australis - Alternate name(s)
- Australian bockadam
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Venomous
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=524.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
