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Chironius fuscus (Brown sipo)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.286 lbs (1.037 kg)
Litter Size [1]  6

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Haddadus binotatus[2]
Thoropa taophora[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Bothrops otavioi (Jararaca)1
Chironius bicarinatus (Two-headed Sipo)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Catadiscus dolichocotyle[4]

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
♦ 2Food habits of snakes from the RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala, an Atlantic Forest fragment of southeastern Brazil, Cesar Felipe de Souza Palmuti, José Cassimiro & Jaime Bertoluci, Biota Neotrop., vol. 9, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 2009
♦ 3Ecology of a snake assemblage in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, Paulo A. Hartmann, Marília T. Hartmann, Marcio Martins, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Volume 49(27):343‐360, 2009
♦ 4Gibson, 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