Catesby's snail-eater

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

Catesby's snail-eater
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Dipsas
Species:
D. catesbyi
Binomial name
Dipsas catesbyi
(Sentzen, 1796)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Etymology

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

Geographic range

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

Habitat

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

Diet

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

Reproduction

D. catesbyi is oviparous.[1][5]

References
  1. Kornacker P, Lehr E, Lundberg M (2010). Dipsas catesbyi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2.
  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, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (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 CJ, Townsend CR, Reynolds RP, MacCulloch RD, Lathrop A (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 (4): 317–620. doi:10.2988/0006-324x-125.4.317. S2CID 86665287.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  5. Dipsas catesbyi. The Reptile Database. Reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved on 2013-01-03.
  6. Goin, Coleman J.; Goin, Olive B.; Zug, George R. (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).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Leptognathus catesbyi, pp. 449–450).
  • Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Dipsas catesbyi, p. 93).
  • Marciano-Júnior E, Mira-Mendes CV, Dias IR, Oliveira FFR, Drummond LO (2015). "Dipsas catesbyi (Catesby's Snail-eater). Defensive Behavior". Herpetological Review 46 (4): 643.
  • Jan G, Sordelli F (1870). Iconographie générale des Ophidiens, Trente-septième livraison. Paris: Baillière. Index + Plates I-VI. (Leptognathus catesbyi, Plate II, figure 2). (in French).
  • Sentzen UJ (1796). "Ophiologische Fragmente, 6. Beschreibung des Coluber Catesbeji". Meyer's Zoologische Archives 2: 66-74. (Coluber catesbeji, new species). (in German).
  • Zug, George R.; Hedges, S. Blair; Sunkel, Sara (1979). "Variation in Reproductive Parameters of Three Neotropical Snakes, Coniophanes fissidens, Dipsas catesbyi, and Imantodes cenchoa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (300): 1–20.
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