#snakeman Victoria reptiles

[snakebusters]

Geocrinia otwaysensis is an amazing frog discovered by the Snakeman from Western Victoria. Learn more at:

[snake-handler]

Baby snakes for baby kids.

Nothing beats a reptile party for kids reptile shows in Australia.

Based in Melbourne, Victoria, the Snakeman as shown here brings small snakes for small kids to get close to and handle. His reptile shows are hands on and interactive.

They are wholly safe and fun.

Learn more about the best reptile parties of all at http://www.reptileparty.com.au

[reptilemanaustralia]

Adult reptile parties in Melbourne are of ever increasing popularity!

In Victoria, Australia, the Snakeman and his crew are well-known for the best live reptile shows in Australia. While reptile parties are thought of as a kids activity, this notion has been turned on its head in recent years. Pioneering the adult reptile party in Melbourne, the Snakeman has changed the concept of wildlife and learning about them.

From the class room to the night club.

And guess what? It is a huge success. The snakes like it as well, as it is a change from the boredom of sitting in a cage all day. Learn all about educational and hands on adult reptile parties at: http://www.reptileparty.com.au/adults_parties_Melbourne.htm

[thesnakehunter]

SNAKE HUNTER IN THE NEWS AGAIN ON @channel9 with @ajhegarty & Connor the camera man. Stay turned tonight for Channel 9 for the latest news story about snakes. Great work today from all. www.snakehunter.com.au If you see a snake, call The Snake Hunter - 24/7 Snake Catcher on 0403875409. #snake #snakes #reptile #snakecatcher #snakeman #snakewrangler #venom #python #Australia #snakehunter #blackheadedpython (at Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpwUA1WP8KS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[snakemanaustralia]

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 61:3-4. Published 10 January 2023. Litter, plastic sheets and rubbish. It’s not necessarily an eco-disaster for all species! LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:19088793-C780-4B7E-9F84-1CBC016CAF88 RAYMOND T. HOSER LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 2 November 2022, Accepted 12 Dec 2022, Published 10 January 2023. ABSTRACT Human hard rubbish in the form of old building materials, sheets of iron and the like have long been known as habitat for reptiles in particular (Hoser 1996). This paper details use of plastic sheets as a refuge and habitat for multiple species of frogs in Victoria, Australia, including as a potential springboard for range expansions.

[rapidsnakeremoval]

In Melbourne and Victoria the best place to learn about snakes and other reptiles is with a snake course with the reptile expert, Raymond Hoser. His reputation is unmatched anywhere and no one knows more about snakes than the Snakeman. Get your snake catching course in Victoria right the first time with proper snake handler training and be safe at all times as a reptile removals person.  Learn more at  http://www.smuggled.com/sbsVSCC2.htm

[snakecatchers]

Nothing beats a reptile party and this includes no matter what age you are! Reptile parties are fin and educational. When people get hands on and can hold the animals, this is even better. Remember, only Snakebusters let people handle the reptiles. No one else in Australia does. While Snakebusters are based in Melbourne, Victoria, they travel all over the country and sometimes even overseas. Why take risks with imitators, when the real thing can be more inexpensive anyway. Snakebusters also do live reptile shows at schools, major events, expos, festivals and street parties.  The snakeman, Ray Hoser also does the most highly rated snake handler courses in Australia and has taught and educated most snake handlers in Australia. Stay safe and get the best reptile displays out there.

[reptile-party]

In between doing deadly snake shows the snakeman Raymond Hoser did a bit of TV education to a hundred million plus people in Japan, where he was seen travelling across Australia in jungles and deserts chasing and handling the world's deadliest snakes. Back home and in between filming, the snake man and his team of dedicated coworkers did Australia's only hands on kids reptile parties and corporate reptile party shows in Melbourne, Victoria and elsewhere.

[snakebusters]

Kids reptile parties can continue in Melbourne after a big court case result this week. Snakeman Raymond Hoser was in an all or nothing legal battle with the State Government of Victoria who were seeking to ban all hands on wildlife displays in Victoria.

The government spent millions of dollars running their case through the courts and lost this round. They must now pay Raymond Hoser his legal costs, but unfortunately the evil Wildlife Department who actually hate wildlife and prefer it dead, have zero remorse.

The battle for the rights of kids to be able to have live reptiles as pets or to enjoy a reptile party will continue. Learn more at: http://www.reptileparty.com.au/kp4.htm

[snakebusters]

Hoser, R. T. 2023. Two new species and thirteen new subspecies within the Australian Skink genus Eremiascincus Greer, 1979. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 66:47-64. Abstract is below

Two new species and thirteen new subspecies within the Australian Skink genus Eremiascincus Greer, 1979. LSIDURN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:PUB:29F031C2-C81B-4A2C-9092-493F85C5BABE RAYMOND T. HOSER LSIDurn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:F9D74EB5-CFB5-49A0-8C7C-9F993B8504AE 488 Park Road, Park Orchards, Victoria, 3134, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9812 3322 Fax: 9812 3355 E-mail: snakeman (at) snakeman.com.au Received 19 January 2023, Accepted 19 August 2023, Published 28 August 2023. ABSTRACT It has been common knowledge among Australian herpetologists that the species diversity within the Australian skink genus Eremiascincus Greer, 1979 has been underestimated. To partially correct this situation, obviously divergent forms are herein formally named as new species or subspecies in accordance with the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al.1999). Within the E. isolepis (Boulenger, 1887) complex, fi ve species are recognized herein, being E. isolepis, E. foresti (Kinghorn, 1932) and E. harwoodi (Wells and Wellington, 1985) as well as two newly named forms. North Queensland specimens referred to the taxon are herein formally named as a new species E. gudjal sp. nov. and specimens from the Arnhem Land escarpment in the Northern Territory are formally named E. yolngu sp. nov.. In addition to this, within each of E. isolepis and E. foresti a new subspecies is formally named for the fi rst time being E. isolepis jinigudera subsp. nov. and E. foresti martu subsp. nov.. The species E. musivus, Mecke, Doughty and Donnellan, 2009 is also formally divided into two subspecies, with the north eastern population being of the newly named and divergent form, being E. musivus oculorum subsp. nov.. The species E. pallida (Günther, 1875) is split into two divergent subspecies, with the south-western form formally named for the fi rst time as E. pallida fl avescentibus subsp. nov.. The northern outlier population of E. intermedia (Sternfeld, 1919) from the mid-north of the Northern Territory around the upper reaches of the Roper River system, which has a consistently higher number of body bands is formally named as the subspecies E. intermedia yungman subsp. nov.. E. richardsonii (Gray, 1845) is divided into ten morphologically divergent subspecies, including the nominate form and the resurrected “Hinulia ambigua De Vis, 1888” as one of them and eight newly named forms being, E. richardsonii djaru subsp. nov., E. richardsonii yindjibarndi subsp. nov., E. richardsonii nyiyarparli subsp. nov., E. richardsonii baiyungu subsp. nov., E. richardsonii ngaanyatjarra subsp. nov., E. richardsonii neglectas subsp. nov., E. richardsonii pindiini subsp. nov. and E. richardsonii wiradjuri subsp. nov.. The basis of the taxonomic actions has been a thorough review of all previously published relevant literature, including molecular data that indicates divergent lineages as well as inspection of relevant specimens of the putative taxa. Each newly named form appears to have been allopatrically separated from their nearest relatives by barriers formed from differing habitat, sometimes combined with the impact of closely related and competing species, in particular others within Eremiascincus. Keywords: Australia; skink; reptile; taxonomy; nomenclature; Eremiascincus; Mawsoniascincus; Sphenomorphus; Hinulia; Eremiascincus; isolepis; foresti; harwoodi; musivus; pallida; fasciolatus; intermedius; new species; gudjal; yolngu; new subspecies; jinigudera; martu; oculorum; fl avescentibus; yungman; djaru; yindjibarndi; nyiyarparli; baiyungu; ngaanyatjarra; neglectas; pindiini; wiradjuri.

[snakemanaustralia]

Raymond Hoser is the world’s foremost reptile expert. He is also the foremost reptile expert in the Australian state of Victoria. He lives in the capital city of Melbourne. He has discovered and named well over a dozen species being more than 1 in 6 of all species within the Australian state of Victoria.

He has a similar ratio in terms of frog species in Victoria and similar ratios for Australia in terms of reptiles and frogs, having named more than 160 species of reptile and over 80 species of frog. There are about 400 frog species in Australia and about 1.4 K currently known reptile species in Australia. Time flies when you have fun and get involved in science and discovery .... about 1 in 6 lizard species in the State of Victoria have been discovered and named by the Snakeman Raymond Hoser, being a number far in excess of any other herpetologist ever! Without exception, all have their validity confirmed by DNA and all are ICZN recognized. Included are species from Melbourne! Below ... 5 dragons, 1 gecko and the rest skinks. An incomplete list is below: Rankinia hoserae Hoser, 2015 Rankinia jameswhybrowi Hoser, 2015 Rankinia neildaviei Hoser, 2015 Amphibolurus jacky Hoser, 2015 Underwoodisaurus mensforthi Hoser, 2016 Tympanocryptis snakebustersorum Hoser, 2019 Woolfscincus halcoggeri Hoser, 2018 Woolfscincus maraynnmartinekae Hoser, 2018 Acritoscincus adelynhoserae Hoser, 2022 Acritoscincus jackyhoserae Hoser, 2022 Acritoscincus katrinahoserae Hoser, 2022 Anepischetosia shireenhoserae Hoser, 2022 Anepischetosia simonkortlangi Hoser, 2022 Pseudemoia mcnamarai Hoser, 2022 Pseudemoia danielmannixi Hoser, 2022 Mcphieus hadynmcphiei Hoser, 2022 PS It is a similar ratio for frogs in Vic as well! Learn more at http://www.raymondhoser.com

[snakemanaustralia]

Snakeman Raymond Hoser with a deadly Tiger Snakes in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The snakeman has been the world’s leading reptile expert for decades. Learn more at http://www.snakeman.com.au 

[snakebusters]

Snake Party Melbourne all the rage.

Snake parties are all the rage among mums and dads in Melbourne. People are lining up for snake parties in Melbourne! To learn more about how Snake Parties came about, read on ...In the late 1960's The Snakeman Raymond Hoser invented Snake Parties. At the time, Hoser was lampooned as an idiot, but the idea could not be killed. The name came from the idea of bringing tons of snakes to a kids birthday party, for the children to get hands on and hold them. These reptile gatherings soon evolved to become full-blown wildlife parties and then the so-called reptile party. Since then he has registered the trademarks for reptile party and reptile parties in Australia, involving all sorts of critters and in all configurations. The reptile party trademarks include Snake parties, snake catcher, online information on snakes, wildlife conservation activities, education in schools and so on.The whole concept of snake parties has travelled a long, long, way since then. Initially, Raymond Hoser and his reptile collection were a curiosity piece among friends and others who would come to his home to see them. Hoser would take the snakes out of their cages, do a show and tell and let those who wanted to hold them, get hands on. At the time, Raymond was more into the science of the animals that dealing with other people, but his parents were regularly entertainers of friends and invariably everyone would want to see the animals. Rather than wait for this to happen, Raymond would simply take the animals to the party, do his show and tell, and then get back to what he had to do. Typically that was study in one form or other, including what has since become many hundreds of major scientific papers. From these humble beginnings, the 15 minute "show and tell" with the snakes as the centrepiece expanded and then word-of-mouth did the rest. The reptile party show extended to an hour or more. Strangers and other people were more than happy to pay to have Raymond take time out and do what soon became known as the reptile party, or snake parties. Raymond Hoser's activities were effectively outlawed in the 1970's, as the government-run and owned zoos saw a potential break in their monopoly of the wildlife space. They wanted people to come to the zoo and spend their money there instead. The idea of a mobile zoo eating into their lucrative profits was something they had to stop and which they succeeded in.Raymond Hoser fought against the government's corrupt and dishonest banning of private ownership of wildlife in Australia for two decades and got nowhere. The enemy in the form of government-run zoos, wildlife officers from the department that owned the zoos were way too powerful and easily withstood the demands of people wanting private ownership of reptiles. The government run zoos, like Taronga in Sydney and the Melbourne Zoo in Melbourne (known as Zoos Victoria) also had the government controlled media on their sidel. That was until in 1993, when Raymond Hoser dropped a so-called curve ball and he published the best-selling book, Smuggled: The Underground Trade in Australia's Wildlife. It exposed the rotten underbelly of the illegal Australian wildlife trade, corruption in State Wildlife departments and all the animal abuse and cruelty going on in their own zoos businesses. True to form the Australian government had the book banned, got police to raid bookshops and seized all copies of the books. On instructions copies were destroyed and the media that was completely controlled by the state was gagged from reporting the story.The state controlled media, including the Murdoch Press, who only reports what the government wants them to, refused to report the story of the corruption book that was banned. Were it not for the corageous efforts of a veteran investigative journalist, Fia Cumming, this story would have gone no further and nothing would have changed. Employed at the notorious Murdoch owned News Corporation, stories she wrote about corruption were censored and banned (they say spiked in the trade) and her sub-editors, better known as government-assisting censors made sure none of her stories about full-blown corruption ever got printed. Aware of this, Fia Cumming decided to sabotage the system and get the story of the banning of the book run when the censor wasn't looking. After planning in line with a covert military operation, her story ran on the front page of all the Murdoch rags on a Sunday in mid 1993, a media frenzy followed and next thing you know, the Australian government through the environment minister at the time (Chris Hartcher) was forced to apologise for the government's fascist behaviour. He then interviewed on National TV and was forced under duress and effectively kicking and screaming to direct that the book be formally "unbanned". Police were directed to go back to policing, but as we know, not much that is done, because a lot of cops prefer to deal illicit drugs and do other things that make them more cash.The book Smuggled:The Underground Trade in Australia's Wildlife went on to become a best seller! It has been republished many times since and remains an Australian classic more than a quarter of a century after it was published. It is mandatory reading for all wildlife lovers and those with an interest in entrenched government corruption in Australia. The bombshell book forced a rewrite of wildlife laws across Australia and for the first time in decades, private people could keep and study native wildlife without getting locked up if caught doing so. This also meant that privately owned travelling wildlife shows could operate again. Once it became clear that mobile wildlife displays were legal and those who did them were not going to jail for doing hands on wildlife displays, Raymond Hoser was again able to do his reptile parties. Seizing on from ideas from others and refining them, the business plan and the nature of the reptile parties changed dramatically.Instead of owning species that he liked, Raymond Hoser targetted those that were best suited to being handled, ease of looking after and with a wow-factor for audiences at events like kids parties and birthday party shows. The snake party, sometimes also known as the Kids Reptile Party included crocodiles, snakes, lizards, frogs and turtles, with lots of different kinds and massive numbers at a time, so that even in a group of 30 people, everyone can hold the animals at the same time. In Melbourne the state of Victoria, Australia, kinders, primary schools, secondary schools and even universities seized on the opportunity to have a mobile zoo come to them and so business boomed for the reptile party shows. The concept of the travelling wildlife display for kids birthday parties has now been copied across Australia and also elsewhere, including in the UK, USA and even South Africa. Raymond Hoser taught people in all these places, who now run their own successful wildlife education and reptile display businesses. In Melbourne, reptile parties are seen most weekends and in pretty much all suburbs of Melbourne and nearby parts of Victoria. On weekdays when not at schools, kinders and the like, reptile displays can be seen at corporate events and even team building exercises for bored business people. Occasionally Raymond Hoser will spend the day simply cleaning cages, a neccessary chore that comes with owning animals. However most fo the time, he does this at night, because, put simply, he is too busy by day to do such things. Did I mention that Raymond Hoser, better known as the Snakeman is also one of the world's best known wildlife conservation icons. In terms of actual results, no one on the planet can match his score. But when it comes to wildlife conservation, Raymond Hoser stresses that everyone needs to be involved for things to work and succeed. He says it is a team game and every person should be a part of the solution.

[reptilemanaustralia]

Snake catcher Raymond Hoser, the Snake catcher keeps female artists safe! Snake removal at 2 AM from bedroom of 13th floor mid city apartment in Melbourne. Two young female artists got a rude shock when a baby spotted python (AKA Cat eater) disturbed their night at 1 AM in the morning of 20 April 2021. Their apartment (on the thirteenth floor at 250 Elizabeth Street, CBD Melbourne), in the middle of the Melbourne CBD was the last place anyone would expect to find a snake! They called the only 24/7 Snake Catcher in Melbourne, Snakeman Raymond Hoser of Snakebusters, and reluctantly he got out of bed and drove 40 minutes into the City to get the snake, arriving at about 2 AM. While this is not the first time a snake has turned up in the middle of the CBD, Hoser gets about 6 a year in and around the CBD, including for example the Red-bellied Black Snake at McDonald’s South Melbourne on Melbourne Cup day last year and a Tiger Snake at a backpackers lodge in Queen Street a year earlier, it is rare for a snake to turn up in a high rise apartment. The last one to turn up in a high rise apartment or similar was a very unhappy Tiger Snake that had stowed away in luggage that turned up at the Salvo apartments, Ringwood about 4 years ago and another in a top floor apartment in St. Kilda Road more than a decade back. Hoser also caught a very large python inside the cabin of an 8 storey crane in Sandringham two years back. The two girls who called the Snake Catcher Raymond Hoser had no idea where the snake had come from or if there would be more about. Hoser said that he thought this one was an escaped pet as it was non-venomous and a species native to Queensland, instead of Victoria. While it was possible a larger snake had laid eggs that had hatched in the building, Hoser said this was unlikely. Pythons can grow very large and the big ones are known to frequently eat cats, hence their name “cat eaters” (but NOT spotted pythons). The specimen found in Elizabeth Street must by law be handed in to a State Government representative (in this case a vet in Frankston, (Shane Simpson, Unusual Pets Vets) and they will make a considered assessment as to what to do with the snake after making all proper enquiries. The snake caught is not depicted on this page, following a written request from the Melbourne Zoo and State Wildlife department. The snakes depicted on this page are similarly non-venomous and also not native to Melbourne. Every year in Melbourne there is a spike in calls for pythons (escaped pets) in the April/May period, turning up in suburban homes, with Hoser averaging about 5-10 a season. All are handed in to the government. Some are kept by zoos or otherwise re-homed and unfortunately some are euthanased due to biosecurity or other risks. Raymond Hoser has been the Melbourne snake catcher for decades. While he has trained dozens of others across Melbourne and thousands elsewhere, he remains the best known snake handler in the world. His expertise with reptiles is unmatchd by any measurable criteria. Raymond Hoser is also the only person stupid enough to pick up the phone at 1 AM and to get out of bed to catch snakes and keep Melbourne residents safe. Raymond Hoser's Melbourne based snake catcher business Snakebusters is also a globally recognized brand when it comes to snake removal, snake handler and snake catcher training courses.

[reptilemanaustralia]

Australian Rock Icon gets a genus of Snake named in his honour, by the Snakeman Raymond Hoser! Australian Rock Icon, guitarist, John (Jock) Paull, has been honoured with a genus of North American Snake named in his honour. Paull, was one of the masked singers in the 90’s Melbourne band TISM. He also performed numerous services to wildlife conservation in Australia, for which he is not as well known. Paull has since died of lung cancer (9 April 2008) and is survived by his long-time girlfriend and now (2021) adult child. Both also live in Melbourne’s south-east. TISM (an acronym of the phrase This Is Serious Mum) were a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia which amassed an enormous cult following. They always appeared with heads covered or wearing masks, so that their true identity would not be revealed. The group was formed on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun. Their third album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, reached the Australian national top 10 in 1995 and still generates a huge playlist audience via online platforms. The genus of snake named in honour of Paull, Jockpaullus Hoser, 2012, is a divergent genus, associated with Rhadinaea Cope, 1863. As part of a global audit of the world’s snakes at the genus level, leading reptile expert, taxonomist and scientist Raymond Hoser identified this previously unnamed genus of snakes for the first time in the early 2000’s. However, Hoser, better known as the Snakeman, who also runs the Reptile Party business in Melbourne was so busy it took him nearly a decade to publish his big paper that named the genus in honour of Paull. Raymond Hoser, has discovered and named more species and genera of snake than anyone else alive. He also named the genus Brucerogersus Hoser, 2012 in honour of Bruce Rogers, one of Australia’s leading Didgeridoo makers and players in another major scientific paper published in 2012. Rogers of Kangaroo Ground on the northern edge of Melbourne also died of cancer in 2016. That genus of snakes is a divergent group of North American Garter Snakes. Raymond Hoser’s live reptiles have featured in a number of well-known music videos of Australian artists. He supplied the large Goanna Lizards used the clip for Great Southern Land, by Icehouse, featuring Iva Davies. The clip was filmed in a disused quarry at Terrey Hills on the northern edge of Sydney, Australia. Snakeman's crocodiles regularly appear on TV and music videos, adverts, etc, as does his venomous and non venomous snakes. BOXBOY (real name, Harrison Richard Wain) a music icon of recent years, has used Snakeman Raymond Hoser's snakes a number of times when making his video clips in Melbourne, Victoria and some of this material can be found on Instagram.

[snakebusters]

Melbourne reptile shows and reptile parties are done by Snakeman Ray Hoser in all parts of Victoria.  He is the only licensed reptile party provider in Australia and yes he owns the registered trademarks.  For the best hands on reptile shows rely on the information here or visit the website at http://www.reptileshows.com.au