Brachyurophis roperi, also known as the northern shovel-nosed snake, is a species of mildly venomous burrowing snake that is endemic to Australia.

The specific epithet roperi refers to the type locality of the Roper River Mission in the Northern Territory.

[2] The species grows to an average of about 37 centimetres or 15 inches in length.

There are dark brown to black bands along the length of the orange to reddish-brown upper body.

[2] The species' range extends from Broome in Western Australia, eastwards through the Kimberley region, the Top End of the Northern Territory as far south as Ti-Tree, to Camooweal in western Queensland.