Catesby's snail-eater

Catesby's snail-eater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Dipsadinae
Genus: Dipsas
Species: D. catesbyi
Binomial name
Dipsas catesbyi
(Sentzen, 1796)[1]
Synonyms

Catesby's snail-eater (Dipsas catesbyi ), also commonly known as Catesby's snail sucker,[2] is a nocturnal[1] species of nonvenomous snake endemic to northern South America.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, catesbyi, is in honor of English naturalist Mark Catesby.[3]

Geographic range

Dipsas catesbyi is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana,[4] Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.[5]

Habitat

This species lives at altitudes of up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft), in mountainous regions, tropical forests, and lowlands.[1]

Diet

Dipsas catesbyi, like all species in the genus Dipsas, preys on arboreal land snails and slugs.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Kornacker P, Lehr E, Lundberg M. 2010. Dipsas catesbyi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
  2. 1 2 Peters JA. 1956. An Analysis of Variation in a South American Snake, Catesby's Snail-Sucker (Dipsas catesbyi Sentzen). American Museum Novitates (1783): 1-41.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Dipsas catesbyi, 50).
  4. Cole, C.J., C.R. Townsend, R.P. Reynolds, R.D. MacCulloch and A. Lathrop (2013). "Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: Illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125: 317–620. doi:10.2988/0006-324x-125.4.317.
  5. Dipsas catesbyi. The Reptile Database. Reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved on 2013-01-03.
  6. Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR. 1978 Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Dipsas, pp. 149, 329).

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