Monday, June 27, 2016

Flat Snake, Siphlophis compressus (Family Dipsadidae)

Coluber compressus Daudin 1803: 247.
Trypanurgos compressus — Beebe 1946: 43.
Tripanurgos compressus — Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970: 311.

Siphlophis compressus — Zaher & Prudente 1999.

Type locality: Surinam.

Distribution: In Central America from Costa Rica to  Panama, southward into Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and eastward into Venezuela, Trinidad, and the Guianas and southward into  Brazil. 

This is a semi-arboreal snake that specializes in feeding on lizards. Mainland populations are frequently observed in arboreal habitats. On Trinidad most of the specimens we observed were on the ground at night or in the early morning hours.

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