HELICOPS LEOPARDINUS (Leopard Keelback) and PHILODRYAS OLFERSII LATIROSTRIS (Lichtenstein?s Green Racer). PREDATION.

RUIZ-GARCIA, JOSÉ; ROMERO, VERÓNICA; NATALINI, MARÍA BELEN

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Año: 2020 vol. 51 p. 145 - 146

0018-084X

Helicops leopardinus is an aquatic snake occurringin the Guianas and Brazil to northern and central Argentina(Rossman 1970. In Peters and Orejas-Miranda [eds.], Catalogueof Neotropical Squamata Part I. Snakes, pp. 122?125. SmithsonianInstitution Press, Washington, D.C.). It is frequently found inestuaries, rivers, and creeks of the oriental Chaco (Giraudo 2001.Serpientes de la Selva Paranaense y del Chaco Húmedo. L.O.L.A.,Buenos Aires, Argentina. 328 pp.). Philodryas olfersii is an arborealand opistoglyphous colubrid distributed from south of theAmazon Basin, Estado Mato Grosso, Brazil, through Paraguay,Bolivia, eastern Perú, and northern Argentina (Thomas 1976. Arevision of the South American colubrid snake genus PhilodryasWagler, 1830. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, CollegeStation, Texas. 338 pp.). This snake is venomous and dangerousto humans (Kuch 1999. Herpetozoa 12:11?16; Peichoto et al.2007. Acta Herpetol. 2:11?15).