<p>No. None of the species we currently consider invasive on Papua New Guinea are reptiles.</p>
<p>A web site <a href="https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=a38c7d49-5a5d-4aa6-a64e-421178bd06d7" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> has a <a href="https://www.gbif.org/dataset/a38c7d49-5a5d-4aa6-a64e-421178bd06d7" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dataset which lists 51 invasive species</a> for that location. Of the 3 species in the phylum <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">chordata</a>, 2 are mammals and 1 is a bird. (This is the taxonomic breakdown)</p>
<ul>
<li>Plantae 22</li>
<li>Animalia 19</li>
<li>Arthropoda 14</li>
<li>Chordata 3</li>
<li>
<pre><code> Mammalia 2 
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre><code> Aves 1
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>Nematoda 1</li>
<li>Unknown phylum 1</li>
<li>Bacteria 4</li>
<li>incertae sedis 3</li>
<li>Fungi 2</li>
<li>Chromista 1</li>
</ul>
<p>No reptiles, so no snakes are considered invasive species.</p>

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<p>Papua New Guinea has many species of snakes, some of which are dangerous:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/png-snakes.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/png-snakes.htm</a></p>
<p>Are any of these species invasive, or are they all indigenous?</p>
<p>Or, since that may be a blurry line, let me phrase it more precisely: did any of the snake species of the island, arrive since 1800?</p>

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Are any New Guinea snakes invasive?
rwallace
# Are any New Guinea snakes invasive?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-04-07)

Papua New Guinea has many species of snakes, some of which are dangerous:

<https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/png-snakes.htm>

Are any of these species invasive, or are they all indigenous?

Or, since that may be a blurry line, let me phrase it more precisely: did any of the snake species of the island, arrive since 1800?

**Tags:** geography, geobiology


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2023-04-08. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

No. None of the species we currently consider invasive on Papua New Guinea are reptiles.

A web site [here](https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=a38c7d49-5a5d-4aa6-a64e-421178bd06d7) has a [dataset which lists 51 invasive species](https://www.gbif.org/dataset/a38c7d49-5a5d-4aa6-a64e-421178bd06d7) for that location. Of the 3 species in the phylum [chordata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate), 2 are mammals and 1 is a bird. (This is the taxonomic breakdown)

* Plantae 22
* Animalia 19
* Arthropoda 14
* Chordata 3
* ```
   Mammalia 2 

  ```
* ```
   Aves 1

  ```
* Nematoda 1
* Unknown phylum 1
* Bacteria 4
* incertae sedis 3
* Fungi 2
* Chromista 1

No reptiles, so no snakes are considered invasive species.


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