25/05/2026
Australia's best reptiles ...
Snakeman's Giant Goannas starred in the clip of this classic....
Icehouse - Great Southern Land
The song "Great Southern Land" from the 1982 album "Primitive Man," performed by Icehouse.More from Icehouse: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgHEOe_S...
24/05/2026
Somewhere along the line, Snakebusters Australian Snakeman kept people happy with Australia's best reptiles.
24/05/2026
He identified as a red head so I kidnapped him. .... but he later escaped in the dark ...
24/05/2026
Honorary Pacific Islanders looking for red heads ....
21/05/2026
One of our very old Tiger Snakes.
Do not copy this at home.
Standard warnings apply.
There is only one Snake Man!
20/05/2026
How is this for rorting a fucccked up voting system in Victoria ....
"In the 2022 Victorian state election, Georgie Purcell received 706 personal below-the-line primary votes (0.15% of the total regional vote), while her party, the Animal Justice Party, secured a total of 7,239 first-preference votes—accounting for 1.53% of the primary vote in the Northern Victoria Region."
"As a backbench Member of Parliament (MP) in Victoria, Georgie Purcell is paid a base salary of $211,972 per annum."
(about $4K a week).
So with 1.5% of the vote and a corrupt preference deal with other parties (in particular the ALP) she has $211,972 per annum for doing SFA all paid for by the taxpayer and all she can do with her time is to try to censor (unsuccessfully) then troll our page because I merely pointed out that she was a bare-faced liar and a hypocrit.
Quite scary really ... (and now she pulls out trolls and the "you're a woman hater" card - which is narcissism pure and simple).
But she never fessed up and took accountability for her hypocrisy and illegal actions - she has instead been shooting the messenger in text book narcissistic deflection.
PS We will happily call out male hypocrits, fat white ones, skinny black ones, Indian ones, transgender ones, Russian ones, wokes, even ones in Sydney or any one else except for Samoans.
PPS Free speech on career politicians and their corruption is guaranteed by the High Court ...
PPPS Don't copy her at home. If you illegally handle a wild wombat like her (even if in a wildlife refuge), it is highly illegal in Victoria to do so, unles the animal is owned by a licensed wildlife demonstrator (and the one she was tormenting was not owned by a wildlife demonstrator) and unlike her, you will be jailed for it. Standard warnings apply.
20/05/2026
For those who missed it, Lazarusus is the correct genus name for the Pygmy or Adelaide Bluetongued Skink from South Australia.
Hoser, 2016 erected the genus to a noise of condemnation, but a study recently completed by scientists not associated with the Snakeman have validated his decision by confirming a 17 MYA divergence from all other Bluetongues and Shinglebacks.
The original Hoser paper from 2016 is listed below:
A redefinition of the Tiliqua Gray, 1825 (sensu lato) group of
lizards from the Australian bioregion including the er****on
of a new genus to accommodate a divergent species.
RAYMOND T. HOSER
488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia.
Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au
Received 30 April 2016, Accepted 20 May 2016, Published 1 August 2016.
Australasian Journal of Herpetology 32:61-63.
Published 1 August 2016.
ABSTRACT
The genus Tiliqua Gray, 1825 includes the iconic Australian Bluetongue Lizards (several species) and other
large well-known livebearing skinks.
Cogger et al. (1983) treated the genus as including a broad swag of species including the so-called She-oak
skinks, Shingleback and Pink-tongued Skink.
More recently and reflecting the position of most Australian herpetologists, Cogger (2014) restricted Tiliqua to
include only the Blue-tongued Lizards and Stumpy Tailed Skinks, while resurrecting the genus
Cyclodomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 to include the She-oak skinks and the Pink-tongued Skink.
Other authors, including Wells and Wellington (1985), have gone further than Cogger (2014) and resurrected
the name Hemisphaeriodon Peters, 1867 for the Pink-tongued Skink, and Trachydosaurus Gray, 1825 for the
Shinglebacks.
A recent phylogeny published (Pyron et al. 2013), not only supports the divisions by Wells and Wellington
(1985), but further supports the division of Cyclodomorphus as currently recognized into two well-defined and
distinct genera, which was done by Wells (2007) and derided as being without evidence by Kaiser et al
(2013).
The correct name for that clade is Zeusius Wells, 2007 and it should be used, even if illegally over-written by
another name coined by the so-called Wüster gang as urged by Kaiser et al. (2013).
The unique species, T. adelaidensis Peters, 1863, which has had varying positions in published phylogenies
and yet is distinct from other species in significant ways is also herein placed in a new genus formally named
for the first time.
This paper also defines all relevant genera within the Tiliqua group as defined by Cogger et al. (1983).
Keywords: Taxonomy; lizards; genus; Tiliqua; Cyclodomorphus; Hemisphaeriodon; Trachydosaurus;
Zeusius; species; Shingleback; Stumpy tailed skink; Bluetongued skink; Pink tongued skink; She-oak skink;
Slender bluetongue; Adelaide Bluetongue Lizard; Australia; Western Australia; South Australia; Northern
Territory; Victoria; Tasmania; New South Wales; genera; new genus; Lazarusus.
Full text at:
https://www.smuggled.com/issue-32-pages-61-63.pdf
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