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Common Crow, Euploea corinna, pinned adult male specimen. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Garden Butterflies
Summary
Butterflies are common visitors to backyards and a wide variety of species drop in to feed on nectar from blossoms. Some are regular garden-dwellers, their caterpillars feeding on widely-grown garden plants or street trees. A few species are even pests of citrus, palms and vegetables.
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Carpet Snake, Morelia spilota. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Carpet Snake or Carpet Python
Summary
Carpet snakes are extremely variable in colour and pattern. Most specimens are olive green, with pale, dark-edged blotches, stripes or cross-bands. This species is widespread and found throughout northern, eastern and southern Australia.
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Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Green Turtle
Summary
The Green Turtle is a large turtle with a bullet-shaped head and four large scales down either side of the shell. It is found in coastal, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
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Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill Turtle
Summary
The Hawksbill Turtle is a medium-sized turtle with a narrow head and beak-like snout. The shell has four large scales down either side which are thick and overlapping. It is found in tropical seas of northern Australia, the central Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions.
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Loggerhead Turtle, Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Turtle
Summary
The Loggerhead Turtle is a large turtle with a broad, triangular head and powerful crushing jaws. It is found in coastal, tropical and subtropical waters around the world.
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Eastern Brown Snake, Pseudonaja textilis, Adult. © Steve Wilson.
Eastern Brown Snake
Summary
The Eastern Brown Snake may be any shade of brown but can also be grey or black. Some individuals are banded. The belly is typically cream with pink or orange spots. It is found over most of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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Ringed Thin-tail Gecko, Phyllurus caudiannulatus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko)
Summary
The Bulburin Leaf-tailed Gecko (Ringed Thin-tail Gecko) is largely restricted to Bulburin State Forest, south-eastern Queensland.
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Rough-throated Leaf-tail Gecko, Saltuarius salebrosus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko)
Summary
The Central Queensland Leaf-tailed Gecko (Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko) is mainly known from dry areas in mid-eastern and south-central Queensland.
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Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko, Saltuarius swaini. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Border Ranges Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in the coastal ranges of south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Border Leaftail Gecko, Saltuarius wyberba. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Granite Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Granite Leaf-tailed Gecko is found in South-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, extending from the Warwick area south to the Mann River Nature Reserve.
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Champion's Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus championae. © Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Koumala Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Koumala Leaf-tailed Gecko is known from only two localities near Koumala in mid-eastern Queensland.
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Eungella leaf-tailed gecko, Phyllurus nepthys. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Eungella Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Eungella Leaf-tailed Gecko is confined to the Clarke Range, west of Mackay, mid-eastern Queensland.
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Whitsunday Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus ossa. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Mackay Coast Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Mackay Coast Leaf-tailed Gecko occurs in disjunct populations in the Proserpine/ Mackay area (Mount Ossa/Mount Charlton, Conway Range, Mount Dryander), mid-eastern Queensland.
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Ring-tailed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus tuberculatus. © Queensland Museum, Bruce Cowell.
Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Cooktown Ring-tailed Gecko is found from Cape Melville to Mt Leswell and also on Stanley Island in the Flinders group, north-eastern Queensland. It is primarily an arthropod feeder but will also take small vertebrates (geckos and frogs).
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Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus gulba. © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch.
Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Gulbaru Leaf-tailed Gecko is found on the extreme southern end of the Paluma Range, 37 km west of Townsville.
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Long-necked Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko, Orraya occultus.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The McIlwraith Leaf-tailed Gecko is restricted to higher elevations in the McIlwraith Range, north-eastern Queensland.
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Spotted Velvet Gecko, Oedura tryoni. © Queensland Museum, Steve Wilson.
Spotted Velvet Gecko
Summary
The Spotted Velvet Gecko is uncommon in suburban Brisbane; abundant in surrounding bush-land. Coast and ranges from mid-eastern Queensland to north-eastern New South Wales.
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Robust Velvet Gecko, Nebulifera robusta. © Queensland Museum, Steve Wilson.
Robust Velvet Gecko
Summary
The Robust Velvet Gecko is common in Brisbane's outer suburbs and surrounding eucalypt woodlands. Mid-eastern Australia.
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Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko, Phyllurus amnicola.© Queensland Museum, Jeff Wright.
Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Mount Elliot Leaf-tailed Gecko is only found on Mount Elliot, Bowling Green Bay NP (30 km SE of Townsville, north-eastern Queensland).
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Pascoe River Ring-tailed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus adorus. © Queensland Museum, Patrick Couper.
Pascoe River Ring-tailed Gecko
Summary
The Pascoe River Ring-tailed Gecko is found on the lower reaches of the Pascoe River, north-eastern Queensland.
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