Tag: colubrid

New Colubrid Snake Species Named After Leonardo DiCaprio

New Colubrid Snake Species Named After Leonardo DiCaprio

Anguiculus dicaprioi was collected from mud roads. They were observed basking and stayed motionless until they were captured. [...]
USFWS To Reconsider Kirtland’s Snake For ESA Protections

USFWS To Reconsider Kirtland’s Snake For ESA Protections

The Kirtland’s snake is a small Colubrid that can be found in wetland, forest, and grassland habitats [...]
New Coffee Snake Species Discovered In Ecuador

New Coffee Snake Species Discovered In Ecuador

The snake is often found in coffee plantations in areas in which its original habitat, cloud forests, have been removed and replaced by the plantation [...]
Gans’ Egg-Eating Snake Can Eat Prey Twice That Of Burmese Python Relative To Size And Mass

Gans’ Egg-Eating Snake Can Eat Prey Twice That Of Burmese Python Relative To Size And Mass

Of the 13 snake species with known gape, the Gans' egg-eating snake had the greatest gape. The Burmese python and the western diamondback rattlesnake [...]
USFWS Denies Protection Of Kirtland’s Snake In 2017, Conservation Groups Are Suing

USFWS Denies Protection Of Kirtland’s Snake In 2017, Conservation Groups Are Suing

The Kirtland’s snake is a small Colubrid that can be found in wetland, forest, and grassland habitats. [...]

Ibiza Island Wall Lizard Devastated By Invasive Snake

The population of the Ibiza wall lizard (Podarcis pityusensis) the last remaining endemic vertebrate on the island of Ibiza in the western Mediterrane [...]
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