Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Cubophis > Cubophis cantherigerus

Cubophis cantherigerus (Cuban Racer)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Cubophis cantherigerus adspersus
Cubophis cantherigerus cantherigerus
Cubophis cantherigerus pepei
Cubophis cantherigerus schwartzi

Attributes

Gestation [1]  79 days
Litter Size [1]  24

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Buenavista Wetland Reserve 778949 Cuba    
Ciénaga de Zapata National Park 1606900 Cuba  
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Prey / Diet

Phyllonycteris poeyi (Cuban flower bat)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Asio stygius (Stygian Owl)1
Chilabothrus angulifer (Cuban Boa)1
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)1

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
♦ 2Phyllonycteris poeyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), CARLOS A. MANCINA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(852):41–48 (2010)
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