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Can you spot the snake hiding in a pile of twigs?

The exact location of a snake hiding in scrub next to a log has kept the snake spotters guessing after a picture was posted to Facebook.

The photo was uploaded by Lockie from the Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers on Tuesday with the challenge: "Time for another round of ‘spot the snake’. As usual, extra points for naming the species!"

The original picture. Can you spot the snake? Source: Facebook/Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers
The original picture. Can you spot the snake? Source: Facebook/Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers

Almost 100 people have responded to the call - with a variety of answers.

Several people thought the snake was a carpet python or spotted python, with others guessing a juvenile eastern brown or keelback snake.

Locations differed wildly, from the top left hand corner, close to the fallen palm tree, to the middle of the picture, hiding beneath twigs.

"Death adder at the left side," or "bottom right bandy bandy" were other suggestions.

Some couldn't see anything at all - other than sticks and vegetation.

"I’m seriously wondering how I haven’t been bitten, I walk around in vegetation like that every day, and I can’t see a snake anywhere there," one person wrote.

"It must have slid away before you took pic," wrote another.

Others were not as willing to take the challenge quite as seriously. "Popping up from under the bottom right of rock, the rare, venomous trouser snake," one cheeky follower wrote.

The correct answer? There is indeed a snake in this picture, and it's a highly venomous rough scaled snake, a breed that is native to the east coast of Australia.

Sunshine Snake Catchers' Lockie told Yahoo 7 the snake was photographed in bushland on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Blow the picture up and the snake sits just to the right of the largest leaf below the fallen log, under what looks to be a white rectangular shape.

The correct location of the snake. Source: Facebook/Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers
The correct location of the snake. Source: Facebook/Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers

It's not big, but it's dangerous - the snake is described as having highly neurotoxic venom.

Many Facebook users were close - the keelback snake, which many people suggested, is a close cousin to the rough scaled snake, but is not poisonous.

The rough scaled snake is highly venomous. Source: Snake Catchers Brisbane
The rough scaled snake is highly venomous. Source: Snake Catchers Brisbane