Simalia kinghorni
Australian scrub python, Scrub python, Amethystine python at Syndicate, QLD
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| Simalia kinghorni | JasonPStewart | 28 Nov 2024 |
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Mossman Gorge, area of the last creek before reaching the first track point with sight of the main river (where then the short side track goes to the river 'beach'). This creek rarely flows except during minor or more flooding.
2015 April 22
12:55–56 pm (zoom from raised walkway) &
1:15–20 pm (walked down slightly off track into the creek bed to very carefully and respectfully photograph squatting right down low on the ground and very quietly and slowly;
as a person doing plants survey work in there well known, acknowledged and in interactions (eg. learning culture and starting language, weeds found and notified for removal, etc.) with the local Yalanji Bama traditional owners and knowledge holders, and the local NPWS).
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Location information
- Coordinates 145.330185-16.470709
- Places Syndicate, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Apr 2015 12:55 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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Species information
- Simalia kinghorni Scientific name
- Australian scrub python, Scrub python, Amethystine python Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 757.6m Recorded at altitude
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