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Cerberus australis (New Guinea bockadam, Dog-faced Water Snake)

Synonyms: Cerberus rynchops australis; Cerberus rynchops novaeguineae; Homalopsis australis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.468 lbs (666 g)
Litter Size [2]  4

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ceryle rudis (Pied Kingfisher)1

Predators

Carcharhinus cautus (Sharks Bay whaler shark)[4]
Haliaeetus leucogaster (White-bellied Sea Eagle)[4]
Haliastur indus (Brahminy Kite)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Callitetrarhynchus gracilis[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2A neglected life-history trait: clutch-size variance in snakes, R. Shine and R. A. Seigel, J. Zool. Lond. (1996) 239, 209-223
♦ 3Diet, Feeding Behavior, Growth, and Numbers of a Population of Cerberus rynchops (Serpentes: Homalopsinae) in Malaysia}, Bruce C. Jayne, Harold K. Voris, Kiew Bong Heang, FIELDIANA Zoology NEW SERIES, NO. 50 (1988)
♦ 4The prey and predators of Homalopsine snakes, HAROLD K. VORIS and JOHN C. MURPHY, Journal of Natural History, 2002, 36, 1621–1632
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0