what is the arafura

Arafura Filesnake, Acrochordus arafurae, a rose by any other name.

An entirely aquatic snake found around the top of Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia. The Arafura is capable of growing to 2.5 metres in length, is livebearing and feeds almost exclusively on fish.

I won't try to tell you about sub caudal scales here, or the number of midbody scales, the colours they may be or details of the territorial range they inhabit. There are many learned people that have already gone to a lot of effort to learn and publish that information and I am not about to attempt to steal their glory and repeat them on these pages. Instead, here a few links to the pages written by these people themselves: