Diamond Python

The Diamond Python (Morelia spilota spilota) is Sydney's signature snake — a large, beautiful, non-venomous native python found nowhere else in the world outside of New South Wales and eastern Victoria. They are present across all five distribution zones of the Greater Sydney region, and they have adapted to suburban life better than almost any other large native reptile. Calm, charismatic and genuinely beneficial, they are one of the species that makes Sydney's wildlife distinctive. If you find one in your garden or your roof, the best response is calm appreciation rather than panic — and if you genuinely need it moved, a licensed reptile catcher can do it without harm to you, the snake or anyone else.